--- title: Text and HTML summary: Prose keeps its structure; HTML loses its markup and keeps its content. canonical: https://docs.caveman.so/docs/proxy/compressors/text-and-html layer: proxy license: BSL-1.1 capability: engine updated: 2026-09-16T21:32:40-07:00 basis: inferred --- # Text and HTML > Prose keeps its structure; HTML loses its markup and keeps its content. Two compressors share this page. The HTML one extracts the main article from a page and drops the navigation, sidebars, scripts and styles around it. The text one is the fallback route for any payload the other detectors decline: it splits prose into sections, keeps the headings, the opening and closing sections and the ones marked important, and folds the rest into a marker. ## Before and after, HTML The fixture is a 100-line page, 8,294 bytes: a 25-link nav, a 30-paragraph article, a 20-link sidebar, a footer, an inline script and an inline style block. ```html