# clipboard/utils/viewtoplaintext

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## Functions

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### `viewToPlainText( converter, viewItem ) → string`

Converts [view item](module_engine_view_item-ViewItem.md) and all of its children to plain text.

[See source](https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/blob/master/packages/ckeditor5-clipboard/src/utils/viewtoplaintext.ts#L26)

#### Parameters

* `converter: ViewDomConverter`

  The converter instance.

* `viewItem: ViewDocumentFragment | ViewItem`

  View item to convert.

#### Returns

* `string`

  Plain text representation of `viewItem`.

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Full index of the CKEditor 5 API reference: [llms.txt](llms.txt)