# PlainText - HTML Format Cleaner

> right-click context-menu items to clear HTML formating and copy as plain text

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/html-format-cleaner](https://chrome-stats.com/d/html-format-cleaner)

## Overview

- **ID:** `html-format-cleaner`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ray
- **Category:** web-development,privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 57
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-12
- **First published:** 2017-12-20
- **Size:** 66 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/html-format-cleaner/)
- **Website:** [https://webextension.org/listing/html-format-cleaner.html](https://webextension.org/listing/html-format-cleaner.html)

## Description

PlainText - HTML Format Cleaner is a Chrome extension that enhances your browsing and editing experience by adding two convenient right-click menu options. It allows you to quickly remove HTML formatting from selected text, ensuring clean and plain content without any underlying code. Additionally, it enables you to copy the plain text version of any selection directly to your clipboard. This extension mimics the popular 'Remove formatting' feature found in Gmail, bringing its powerful utility to all WYSIWYG HTML editors across websites.

Ideal for users who frequently work with rich text editors, PlainText simplifies text cleanup and copying tasks, saving time and preserving the integrity of your content. Whether you want to paste text without unwanted styles or clean up copied content, this tool integrates seamlessly into your browser for fast and easy HTML formatting removal.

## Rankings

- #15,376 — Overall
- #12 — format
- #43 — html
- #46 — cleaner

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/html-format-cleaner)