
# getPlainText

You can extract the plain text of your current state for some custom usecases like
generating content summary.

## Usage

Use `getPlainText` utility to extract the plain text of your content .

```ts
getPlainText( state: State ) => string
```

## Example

An example of `getPlainText` usage:

```ts
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor, getPlainText } from 'contenido';


const Demo = () => {
  const [editorState, setEditorState] = useState(
    EditorState.createEmpty()
  );

  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(getPlainText(editorState))
  }, [editorState])

  return (
    <>
      <Editor
        editorState={editorState}
        onChange={setEditorState}
        editorRef={editorRef}
      >
    </>
  )
}

export default Demo;
```


Plain Text

overview

installation

getting-started

custom-styles

bold

italic

underline

line-through

overline

superscript

subscript

color

transform

inline-styles

custom-block-type

heading-1-to-6

paragraph

list

blockquote

text-alignment

block-types

link

decorators

custom-atomic-block

image-block

video-block

audio-block

file-block

atomic-count

image-count

video-count

audio-count

file-count

atomic-blocks

focus-on-editor

empty-raw-content-state

selected-blocks-map

clear-inline-styles

clear-block-types

soft-newline

clear-entities

clear

character-count

plain-text

word-array

word-count

find-entities

find-link-entities

entity-count

generate-key

helpers

shortcuts

shortcuts-map

getPlainText

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