function convertHtmlToText() {
    var inputText = document.getElementById("input").value;
    var returnText = "" + inputText;

    //-- remove BR tags and replace them with line break
    returnText=returnText.replace(/
/gi, "\n");
    returnText=returnText.replace(//gi, "\n");
    returnText=returnText.replace(//gi, "\n");

    //-- remove P and A tags but preserve what's inside of them
    returnText=returnText.replace(//gi, "\n");
    returnText=returnText.replace(/(.*?)<\/a>/gi, " $2 ($1)");

    //-- remove all inside SCRIPT and STYLE tags
    returnText=returnText.replace(/[\w\W]{1,}(.*?)[\w\W]{1,}<\/script>/gi, "");
    returnText=returnText.replace(/[\w\W]{1,}(.*?)[\w\W]{1,}<\/style>/gi, "");
    //-- remove all else
    returnText=returnText.replace(/<(?:.|\s)*?>/g, "");

    //-- get rid of more than 2 multiple line breaks:
    returnText=returnText.replace(/(?:(?:\r\n|\r|\n)\s*){2,}/gim, "\n\n");

    //-- get rid of more than 2 spaces:
    returnText = returnText.replace(/ +(?= )/g,'');

    //-- get rid of html-encoded characters:
    returnText=returnText.replace(/ /gi," ");
    returnText=returnText.replace(/&/gi,"&");
    returnText=returnText.replace(/"/gi,'"');
    returnText=returnText.replace(//gi,'>');

    //-- return
    document.getElementById("output").value = returnText;
}