Convert TXT to HTML with proper paragraphs and links
This TXT to HTML converter turns plain text into clean, valid HTML. Paste text or open a .txt file and the HTML appears instantly: blank lines start new <p> paragraphs, single line breaks become <br>, web and e-mail addresses become links, and characters such as <, > and & are escaped so they display as text instead of breaking your page.
Use it to publish notes, release logs, e-mails, poems or transcripts on a website, to feed text into a CMS that expects HTML, or to prepare content for an HTML e-mail. Optional list and heading detection turns lines that start with “-” or “1.” into real <ul> and <ol> lists and short title lines into headings.
Everything runs in your browser — the text is never uploaded.
How to use the TXT to HTML Converter
- Paste text into the Text box or press Open .txt file; the file’s encoding is detected and shown.
- Pick how paragraphs are made, and whether links, lists and headings are detected.
- Choose an HTML fragment for pasting into a page, or a full HTML document with a title and basic styling.
- Switch Characters to ASCII-safe if the HTML must pass through a system that mangles non-English characters.
- Check the Preview, then press Copy HTML or Download .html.
TXT to HTML Converter features
Correct escaping
Ampersands, angle brackets, quotes and apostrophes become entities, so code samples and maths like “5 < 7” show as written and can’t inject markup.
Four paragraph modes
Keep line breaks with <br>, join hard-wrapped lines into flowing paragraphs, make every line a paragraph, or keep the exact layout in a <pre> block.
Smart auto-linking
https://, http:// and www. addresses and e-mail addresses become links; a full stop or bracket at the end of a sentence stays outside the link. Links can open in a new tab with rel="noopener".
Lists and headings
Bulleted and numbered lines become nested <ul> and <ol> lists that start where your numbering starts, and title-like lines can become <h1> and <h2>.
Fragment or full page
Get just the body markup, or a complete HTML5 document with charset, viewport and a small readable stylesheet.
Encodings in and out
Read UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252 and other encodings; write UTF-8 or pure ASCII with numeric character references.
What the converter produces
From a title line, two lines of opening times, a line starting with “- ” and an e-mail address — with heading and list detection switched on — you get:
<h1>Opening hours</h1>
<p>Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00<br>
Sat 10:00–14:00</p>
<ul><li>Closed on public holidays</li></ul>
<p>Questions? <a href="mailto:shop@example.com">shop@example.com</a></p>Escaping, entities and encodings
Five characters have special meaning in HTML: & starts an entity, < and > open and close tags, and quotes delimit attribute values. The converter replaces them with &, <, >, " and ', so any text — including code and e-mails pasted from elsewhere — appears exactly as typed. Tags inside your text are displayed, never run.
Characters such as é, ₹ or 日本 are written as they are, and the full-document option declares <meta charset="utf-8"> so browsers decode them correctly. If the HTML has to travel through an old system that only handles ASCII, choose ASCII-safe: every other character becomes a numeric reference such as ₹ for ₹. To encode or decode single entities, use the HTML Entity Encoder.
Plain text, Markdown or HTML?
If your text already contains Markdown — **bold**, # headings, [links](…) or tables — the Markdown to HTML converter renders much more of it. Use this tool for text that is genuinely plain: e-mails, logs, notes and transcripts. Going the other way, HTML to Markdown turns web pages back into lightweight text, and TXT to DOCX makes a Word document from the same text.
TXT to HTML Converter FAQ
How do I convert a TXT file to HTML?
Open the .txt file or paste its text, choose the paragraph mode and whether you want a fragment or a full page, then copy the HTML or download it as an .html file.
How are line breaks converted?
By default a blank line starts a new paragraph and a single line break becomes a <br>. Choose “join lines” for hard-wrapped text, “every line is a paragraph” for one-thought-per-line notes, or <pre> to keep the layout exactly.
Will HTML tags in my text be run?
No. Angle brackets and ampersands are escaped, so a tag in your text is shown as text. The preview is also sandboxed with scripts disabled.
Can it make links clickable?
Yes. Addresses starting with http://, https:// or www. and e-mail addresses become links. Punctuation at the end of a sentence stays outside the link, and links can open in a new tab.
What encoding does the HTML use?
UTF-8, the standard for the web, with a meta charset tag in full documents. The ASCII-safe option replaces every non-ASCII character with a numeric character reference instead.
Is my text uploaded?
No — the conversion is done by JavaScript in this page and the text never leaves your device.