Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HTC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HTC to another file type
To convert HTC components to another format, you need Internet Explorer or other Web software.
Convert a file to HTC
To convert other file formats to the "HTML Component / Cache File" file type, you need software like Internet Explorer or a similar tool.
About HTC files
An .HTC file primarily functions as an HTML Component behavior file, historically utilized by Microsoft Internet Explorer to encapsulate script, style, and structure into reusable components via XML. Alternatively, in the emulation community, .HTC files serve as GZIP-compressed high-resolution texture caches for the GlideN64 graphics plugin. The primary disadvantage of web-based .HTC files is severe obsolescence. They rely on proprietary Microsoft technologies, specifically the CSS 'behavior' property, which is completely unsupported by modern web browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. This forces developers into a challenging conversion process, requiring manual extraction and refactoring of legacy JScript or VBScript into standard JavaScript and CSS. GlideN64 texture caches present their own challenges; they are closed, proprietary archives that can grow to massive file sizes and cannot be opened by standard image viewers. Because of these distinct and incompatible uses, standard online converters often fail or corrupt the data. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible using convert.guru. Our analysis engine inspects the file header. If it detects a legacy web component, we expose the underlying XML and text structure for easy copying. If it identifies an emulator cache, it detects the embedded .GZ format, allowing you to access and extract the raw texture payloads.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HTC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HTC file to JPG, HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY or RB, you can use Internet Explorer or similar software from the "Web Components or Texture Cache" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to HTC, try Internet Explorer or another comparable tool in the "Web Components or Texture Cache" category.
The HTC Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HTC converter.