diff --git a/doc/Addons.md b/doc/Addons.md
index dadf76abd7..de0d9e4963 100644
--- a/doc/Addons.md
+++ b/doc/Addons.md
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ include/cronhooks.php:	Addon::callHooks('cron', $d);
 
 include/security.php:		Addon::callHooks('logged_in', $a->user);
 
-include/html2bbcode.php:	Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $text);
+src/Content/Text/HTML.php:	Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $text);
 
 include/Contact.php:	Addon::callHooks('remove_user',$r[0]);
 
diff --git a/doc/de/Addons.md b/doc/de/Addons.md
index f4c14bc613..5bbfde2794 100644
--- a/doc/de/Addons.md
+++ b/doc/de/Addons.md
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ include/cronhooks.php:		Addon::callHooks('cron', $d);
 
 include/security.php:		Addon::callHooks('logged_in', $a->user);
 
-include/html2bbcode.php:	Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $text);
+src/Content/Text/HTML.php:	Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $text);
 
 include/Contact.php:		Addon::callHooks('remove_user',$r[0]);
 
diff --git a/include/api.php b/include/api.php
index 60a9acce0d..eec713c537 100644
--- a/include/api.php
+++ b/include/api.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use Friendica\App;
 use Friendica\Content\ContactSelector;
 use Friendica\Content\Feature;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
+use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 use Friendica\Core\Addon;
 use Friendica\Core\Config;
 use Friendica\Core\L10n;
@@ -41,11 +42,9 @@ use Friendica\Util\Network;
 use Friendica\Util\XML;
 
 require_once 'include/conversation.php';
-require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
 require_once 'mod/share.php';
 require_once 'mod/item.php';
 require_once 'include/security.php';
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 require_once 'mod/wall_upload.php';
 require_once 'mod/proxy.php';
 
@@ -1096,7 +1095,7 @@ function api_statuses_mediap($type)
 		$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
 		$txt = $purifier->purify($txt);
 	}
-	$txt = html2bbcode($txt);
+	$txt = HTML::toBBCode($txt);
 
 	$a->argv[1]=$user_info['screen_name']; //should be set to username?
 
@@ -1147,7 +1146,7 @@ function api_statuses_update($type)
 			$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
 			$txt = $purifier->purify($txt);
 
-			$_REQUEST['body'] = html2bbcode($txt);
+			$_REQUEST['body'] = HTML::toBBCode($txt);
 		}
 	} else {
 		$_REQUEST['body'] = requestdata('status');
@@ -2624,10 +2623,10 @@ function api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender)
 		if ($_GET['getText'] == 'html') {
 			$ret['text'] = BBCode::convert($item['body'], false);
 		} elseif ($_GET['getText'] == 'plain') {
-			$ret['text'] = trim(html2plain(BBCode::convert(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, 2, true), 0));
+			$ret['text'] = trim(HTML::toPlaintext(BBCode::convert(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, 2, true), 0));
 		}
 	} else {
-		$ret['text'] = $item['title'] . "\n" . html2plain(BBCode::convert(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, 2, true), 0);
+		$ret['text'] = $item['title'] . "\n" . HTML::toPlaintext(BBCode::convert(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, 2, true), 0);
 	}
 	if (x($_GET, 'getUserObjects') && $_GET['getUserObjects'] == 'false') {
 		unset($ret['sender']);
@@ -2650,7 +2649,7 @@ function api_convert_item($item)
 
 	// Workaround for ostatus messages where the title is identically to the body
 	$html = BBCode::convert(api_clean_plain_items($body), false, 2, true);
-	$statusbody = trim(html2plain($html, 0));
+	$statusbody = trim(HTML::toPlaintext($html, 0));
 
 	// handle data: images
 	$statusbody = api_format_items_embeded_images($item, $statusbody);
diff --git a/include/enotify.php b/include/enotify.php
index c877540aba..1e2008392d 100644
--- a/include/enotify.php
+++ b/include/enotify.php
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ use Friendica\Database\DBM;
 use Friendica\Util\DateTimeFormat;
 use Friendica\Util\Emailer;
 
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
-
 /**
  * @brief Creates a notification entry and possibly sends a mail
  *
diff --git a/include/html2bbcode.php b/include/html2bbcode.php
deleted file mode 100644
index a5967d2cb3..0000000000
--- a/include/html2bbcode.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,403 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-/**
- * @file include/html2bbcode.php
- * @brief Converter for HTML to BBCode
- *
- * Made by: ike@piratenpartei.de
- * Originally made for the syncom project: http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Syncom
- * 					https://github.com/annando/Syncom
- */
-
-use Friendica\Core\Addon;
-use Friendica\Util\Network;
-use Friendica\Util\XML;
-
-function node2bbcode(&$doc, $oldnode, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb)
-{
-	do {
-		$done = node2bbcodesub($doc, $oldnode, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb);
-	} while ($done);
-}
-
-function node2bbcodesub(&$doc, $oldnode, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb)
-{
-	$savestart = str_replace('$', '\x01', $startbb);
-	$replace = false;
-
-	$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);
-
-	$list = $xpath->query("//".$oldnode);
-	foreach ($list as $oldNode) {
-		$attr = [];
-		if ($oldNode->attributes->length) {
-			foreach ($oldNode->attributes as $attribute) {
-				$attr[$attribute->name] = $attribute->value;
-			}
-		}
-
-		$replace = true;
-
-		$startbb = $savestart;
-
-		$i = 0;
-
-		foreach ($attributes as $attribute => $value) {
-			$startbb = str_replace('\x01'.++$i, '$1', $startbb);
-			if (strpos('*'.$startbb, '$1') > 0) {
-				if ($replace && (@$attr[$attribute] != '')) {
-					$startbb = preg_replace($value, $startbb, $attr[$attribute], -1, $count);
-
-					// If nothing could be changed
-					if ($count == 0) {
-						$replace = false;
-					}
-				} else {
-					$replace = false;
-				}
-			} else {
-				if (@$attr[$attribute] != $value) {
-					$replace = false;
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		if ($replace) {
-			$StartCode = $oldNode->ownerDocument->createTextNode($startbb);
-			$EndCode = $oldNode->ownerDocument->createTextNode($endbb);
-
-			$oldNode->parentNode->insertBefore($StartCode, $oldNode);
-
-			if ($oldNode->hasChildNodes()) {
-				foreach ($oldNode->childNodes as $child) {
-					$newNode = $child->cloneNode(true);
-					$oldNode->parentNode->insertBefore($newNode, $oldNode);
-				}
-			}
-
-			$oldNode->parentNode->insertBefore($EndCode, $oldNode);
-			$oldNode->parentNode->removeChild($oldNode);
-		}
-	}
-	return($replace);
-}
-
-function html2bbcode($message, $basepath = '')
-{
-
-	$message = str_replace("\r", "", $message);
-
-	// Removing code blocks before the whitespace removal processing below
-	$codeblocks = [];
-	$message = preg_replace_callback(
-		'#<pre><code(?: class="([^"]*)")?>(.*)</code></pre>#iUs',
-		function ($matches) use (&$codeblocks) {
-			$return = '[codeblock-' . count($codeblocks) . ']';
-
-			$prefix = '[code]';
-			if ($matches[1] != '') {
-				$prefix = '[code=' . $matches[1] . ']';
-			}
-			$codeblocks[] = $prefix . trim($matches[2]) . '[/code]';
-			return $return;
-		},
-		$message
-	);
-
-	$message = str_replace(
-		[
-			"<li><p>",
-			"</p></li>",
-		],
-		[
-			"<li>",
-			"</li>",
-		],
-		$message
-	);
-
-	// remove namespaces
-	$message = preg_replace('=<(\w+):(.+?)>=', '<removeme>', $message);
-	$message = preg_replace('=</(\w+):(.+?)>=', '</removeme>', $message);
-
-	$doc = new DOMDocument();
-	$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
-
-	$message = mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
-
-	@$doc->loadHTML($message);
-
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'style');
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'head');
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'title');
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'meta');
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'xml');
-	XML::deleteNode($doc, 'removeme');
-
-	$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);
-	$list = $xpath->query("//pre");
-	foreach ($list as $node) {
-		$node->nodeValue = str_replace("\n", "\r", $node->nodeValue);
-	}
-
-	$message = $doc->saveHTML();
-	$message = str_replace(["\n<", ">\n", "\r", "\n", "\xC3\x82\xC2\xA0"], ["<", ">", "<br />", " ", ""], $message);
-	$message = preg_replace('= [\s]*=i', " ", $message);
-	@$doc->loadHTML($message);
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'html', [], "", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'body', [], "", "");
-
-	// Outlook-Quote - Variant 1
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'p', ['class'=>'MsoNormal', 'style'=>'margin-left:35.4pt'], '[quote]', '[/quote]');
-
-	// Outlook-Quote - Variant 2
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'div', ['style'=>'border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'], '[quote]', '[/quote]');
-
-	// MyBB-Stuff
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['style'=>'text-decoration: underline;'], '[u]', '[/u]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['style'=>'font-style: italic;'], '[i]', '[/i]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['style'=>'font-weight: bold;'], '[b]', '[/b]');
-
-	/*node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'size'=>'/(\d+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][size=$2][color=$3]', '[/color][/size][/font]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('size'=>'/(\d+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[size=$1][color=$2]', '[/color][/size]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'size'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][color=$3]', '[/color][/font]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('size'=>'/(\d+)/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'font', array('color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[color=$1]', '[/color]');
-	*/
-	// Untested
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*color:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1][font=$2][color=$3]', '[/color][/font][/size]');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(\d+)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['style'=>'/.*color:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'], '[color="$1"]', '[/color]');
-
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
-
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-size:\s*(\d+?)pt.*/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-size:\s*(\d+?)px.*/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
-
-	// Importing the classes - interesting for importing of posts from third party networks that were exported from friendica
-	// Test
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('class'=>'/([\w ]+)/'), '[class=$1]', '[/class]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['class'=>'type-link'], '[class=type-link]', '[/class]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', ['class'=>'type-video'], '[class=type-video]', '[/class]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'strong', [], '[b]', '[/b]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'em', [], '[i]', '[/i]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'b', [], '[b]', '[/b]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'i', [], '[i]', '[/i]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'u', [], '[u]', '[/u]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'big', [], "[size=large]", "[/size]");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'small', [], "[size=small]", "[/size]");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'blockquote', [], '[quote]', '[/quote]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'br', [], "\n", '');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'p', ['class'=>'MsoNormal'], "\n", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'div', ['class'=>'MsoNormal'], "\r", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'pre', [], "", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'div', [], "\r", "\r");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'p', [], "\n", "\n");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'ul', [], "[list]", "[/list]");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'ol', [], "[list=1]", "[/list]");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'li', [], "[*]", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'hr', [], "[hr]", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'table', [], "", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'tr', [], "\n", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'td', [], "\t", "");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'table', array(), "[table]", "[/table]");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'th', array(), "[th]", "[/th]");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'tr', array(), "[tr]", "[/tr]");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'td', array(), "[td]", "[/td]");
-
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h1', array(), "\n\n[size=xx-large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h2', array(), "\n\n[size=x-large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h3', array(), "\n\n[size=large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h4', array(), "\n\n[size=medium][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h5', array(), "\n\n[size=small][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'h6', array(), "\n\n[size=x-small][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h1', [], "\n\n[h1]", "[/h1]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h2', [], "\n\n[h2]", "[/h2]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h3', [], "\n\n[h3]", "[/h3]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h4', [], "\n\n[h4]", "[/h4]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h5', [], "\n\n[h5]", "[/h5]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h6', [], "\n\n[h6]", "[/h6]\n");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'a', ['href'=>'/mailto:(.+)/'], '[mail=$1]', '[/mail]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'a', ['href'=>'/(.+)/'], '[url=$1]', '[/url]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'img', ['src'=>'/(.+)/', 'width'=>'/(\d+)/', 'height'=>'/(\d+)/'], '[img=$2x$3]$1', '[/img]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'img', ['src'=>'/(.+)/'], '[img]$1', '[/img]');
-
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'video', ['src'=>'/(.+)/'], '[video]$1', '[/video]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'audio', ['src'=>'/(.+)/'], '[audio]$1', '[/audio]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'iframe', ['src'=>'/(.+)/'], '[iframe]$1', '[/iframe]');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'key', [], '[code]', '[/code]');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'code', [], '[code]', '[/code]');
-
-	$message = $doc->saveHTML();
-
-	// I'm removing something really disturbing
-	// Don't know exactly what it is
-	$message = str_replace(chr(194).chr(160), ' ', $message);
-
-	$message = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $message);
-
-	// removing multiple DIVs
-	$message = preg_replace('=\r *\r=i', "\n", $message);
-	$message = str_replace("\r", "\n", $message);
-
-	Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $message);
-
-	$message = strip_tags($message);
-
-	$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-
-	$message = str_replace(["<"], ["&lt;"], $message);
-
-	// remove quotes if they don't make sense
-	$message = preg_replace('=\[/quote\][\s]*\[quote\]=i', "\n", $message);
-
-	$message = preg_replace('=\[quote\]\s*=i', "[quote]", $message);
-	$message = preg_replace('=\s*\[/quote\]=i', "[/quote]", $message);
-
-	do {
-		$oldmessage = $message;
-		$message = str_replace("\n \n", "\n\n", $message);
-	} while ($oldmessage != $message);
-
-	do {
-		$oldmessage = $message;
-		$message = str_replace("\n\n\n", "\n\n", $message);
-	} while ($oldmessage != $message);
-
-	do {
-		$oldmessage = $message;
-		$message = str_replace(
-			[
-				"[/size]\n\n",
-				"\n[hr]",
-				"[hr]\n",
-				"\n[list",
-				"[/list]\n",
-				"\n[/",
-				"[list]\n",
-				"[list=1]\n",
-				"\n[*]"],
-			[
-				"[/size]\n",
-				"[hr]",
-				"[hr]",
-				"[list",
-				"[/list]",
-				"[/",
-				"[list]",
-				"[list=1]",
-				"[*]"],
-			$message
-		);
-	} while ($message != $oldmessage);
-
-	$message = str_replace(
-		['[b][b]', '[/b][/b]', '[i][i]', '[/i][/i]'],
-		['[b]', '[/b]', '[i]', '[/i]'],
-		$message
-	);
-
-	// Handling Yahoo style of mails
-	$message = str_replace('[hr][b]From:[/b]', '[quote][b]From:[/b]', $message);
-
-	// Restore code blocks
-	$message = preg_replace_callback(
-		'#\[codeblock-([0-9]+)\]#iU',
-		function ($matches) use ($codeblocks) {
-			$return = '';
-			if (isset($codeblocks[intval($matches[1])])) {
-				$return = $codeblocks[$matches[1]];
-			}
-			return $return;
-		},
-		$message
-	);
-
-	$message = trim($message);
-
-	if ($basepath != '') {
-		$message = addHostname($message, $basepath);
-	}
-
-	return $message;
-}
-
-/**
- * @brief Sub function to complete incomplete URL
- *
- * @param array  $matches  Result of preg_replace_callback
- * @param string $basepath Basepath that is used to complete the URL
- *
- * @return string The expanded URL
- */
-function addHostnameSub($matches, $basepath)
-{
-	$base = parse_url($basepath);
-	unset($base['query']);
-	unset($base['fragment']);
-
-	$link = $matches[0];
-	$url = $matches[1];
-
-	$parts = array_merge($base, parse_url($url));
-	$url2 = Network::unparseURL($parts);
-
-	return str_replace($url, $url2, $link);
-}
-
-/**
- * @brief Complete incomplete URLs in BBCode
- *
- * @param string $body     Body with URLs
- * @param string $basepath Basepath that is used to complete the URL
- *
- * @return string Body with expanded URLs
- */
-function addHostname($body, $basepath)
-{
-	$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
-
-	$matches = ["/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\].*?\[\/url\]/ism",
-			"/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism",
-			"/\[img\=[0-9]*x[0-9]*\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
-			"/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
-			"/\[zmg\=[0-9]*x[0-9]*\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
-			"/\[zmg\](.*?)\[\/zmg\]/ism",
-			"/\[video\](.*?)\[\/video\]/ism",
-			"/\[audio\](.*?)\[\/audio\]/ism",
-			];
-
-	foreach ($matches as $match) {
-		$body = preg_replace_callback(
-			$match,
-			function ($match) use ($basepath) {
-				return addHostnameSub($match, $basepath);
-			},
-			$body
-		);
-	}
-	return $body;
-}
diff --git a/include/html2plain.php b/include/html2plain.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 626f5e45ed..0000000000
--- a/include/html2plain.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
-
-function breaklines($line, $level, $wraplength = 75)
-{
-	if ($wraplength == 0) {
-		$wraplength = 2000000;
-	}
-
-	$wraplen = $wraplength - $level;
-
-	$newlines = [];
-
-	do {
-		$oldline = $line;
-
-		$subline = substr($line, 0, $wraplen);
-
-		$pos = strrpos($subline, ' ');
-
-		if ($pos == 0) {
-			$pos = strpos($line, ' ');
-		}
-
-		if (($pos > 0) && strlen($line) > $wraplen) {
-			$newline = trim(substr($line, 0, $pos));
-			if ($level > 0) {
-				$newline = str_repeat(">", $level) . ' ' . $newline;
-			}
-
-			$newlines[] = $newline . " ";
-			$line = substr($line, $pos + 1);
-		}
-	} while ((strlen($line) > $wraplen) && !($oldline == $line));
-
-	if ($level > 0) {
-		$line = str_repeat(">", $level) . ' ' . $line;
-	}
-
-	$newlines[] = $line;
-
-	return implode($newlines, "\n");
-}
-
-function quotelevel($message, $wraplength = 75)
-{
-	$lines = explode("\n", $message);
-
-	$newlines = [];
-	$level = 0;
-	foreach ($lines as $line) {
-		$line = trim($line);
-		$startquote = false;
-		while (strpos("*" . $line, '[quote]') > 0) {
-			$level++;
-			$pos = strpos($line, '[quote]');
-			$line = substr($line, 0, $pos) . substr($line, $pos + 7);
-			$startquote = true;
-		}
-
-		$currlevel = $level;
-
-		while (strpos("*" . $line, '[/quote]') > 0) {
-			$level--;
-			if ($level < 0) {
-				$level = 0;
-			}
-
-			$pos = strpos($line, '[/quote]');
-			$line = substr($line, 0, $pos) . substr($line, $pos + 8);
-		}
-
-		if (!$startquote || ($line != '')) {
-			$newlines[] = breaklines($line, $currlevel, $wraplength);
-		}
-	}
-
-	return implode($newlines, "\n");
-}
-
-function collecturls($message)
-{
-	$pattern = '/<a.*?href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
-	preg_match_all($pattern, $message, $result, PREG_SET_ORDER);
-
-	$urls = [];
-	foreach ($result as $treffer) {
-		$ignore = false;
-
-		// A list of some links that should be ignored
-		$list = ["/user/", "/tag/", "/group/", "/profile/", "/search?search=", "/search?tag=", "mailto:", "/u/", "/node/",
-			"//facebook.com/profile.php?id=", "//plus.google.com/", "//twitter.com/"];
-		foreach ($list as $listitem) {
-			if (strpos($treffer[1], $listitem) !== false) {
-				$ignore = true;
-			}
-		}
-
-		if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//twitter.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/status/") !== false)) {
-			$ignore = false;
-		}
-
-		if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//plus.google.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/posts") !== false)) {
-			$ignore = false;
-		}
-
-		if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//plus.google.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/photos") !== false)) {
-			$ignore = false;
-		}
-
-		if (!$ignore) {
-			$urls[$treffer[1]] = $treffer[1];
-		}
-	}
-
-	return $urls;
-}
-
-function html2plain($html, $wraplength = 75, $compact = false)
-{
-	global $lang;
-
-	$message = str_replace("\r", "", $html);
-
-	$doc = new DOMDocument();
-	$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
-
-	$message = mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
-
-	@$doc->loadHTML($message);
-
-	$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);
-	$list = $xpath->query("//pre");
-	foreach ($list as $node) {
-		$node->nodeValue = str_replace("\n", "\r", $node->nodeValue);
-	}
-
-	$message = $doc->saveHTML();
-	$message = str_replace(["\n<", ">\n", "\r", "\n", "\xC3\x82\xC2\xA0"], ["<", ">", "<br>", " ", ""], $message);
-	$message = preg_replace('= [\s]*=i', " ", $message);
-
-	// Collecting all links
-	$urls = collecturls($message);
-
-	@$doc->loadHTML($message);
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'html', [], '', '');
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'body', [], '', '');
-
-	// MyBB-Auszeichnungen
-	/*
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'text-decoration: underline;'), '_', '_');
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'font-style: italic;'), '/', '/');
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'font-weight: bold;'), '*', '*');
-
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'strong', array(), '*', '*');
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'b', array(), '*', '*');
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'i', array(), '/', '/');
-	  node2bbcode($doc, 'u', array(), '_', '_');
-	 */
-
-	if ($compact) {
-		node2bbcode($doc, 'blockquote', [], "»", "«");
-	} else {
-		node2bbcode($doc, 'blockquote', [], '[quote]', "[/quote]\n");
-	}
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'br', [], "\n", '');
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'pre', [], "", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'div', [], "\r", "\r");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'p', [], "\n", "\n");
-
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'ul', array(), "\n[list]", "[/list]\n");
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'ol', array(), "\n[list=1]", "[/list]\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'li', [], "\n* ", "\n");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'hr', [], "\n" . str_repeat("-", 70) . "\n", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'tr', [], "\n", "");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'td', [], "\t", "");
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h1', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h2', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h3', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h4', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h5', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'h6', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
-
-	// Problem: there is no reliable way to detect if it is a link to a tag or profile
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/'), ' $1 ', ' ', true);
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/', 'rel'=>'oembed'), ' $1 ', '', true);
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array('alt'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array('title'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
-	//node2bbcode($doc, 'img', array(), '', '');
-	if (!$compact) {
-		node2bbcode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' [img]$1', '[/img] ');
-	} else {
-		node2bbcode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' ', ' ');
-	}
-
-	node2bbcode($doc, 'iframe', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' $1 ', '');
-
-	$message = $doc->saveHTML();
-
-	if (!$compact) {
-		$message = str_replace("[img]", "", $message);
-		$message = str_replace("[/img]", "", $message);
-	}
-
-	// was ersetze ich da?
-	// Irgendein stoerrisches UTF-Zeug
-	$message = str_replace(chr(194) . chr(160), ' ', $message);
-
-	$message = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $message);
-
-	// Aufeinanderfolgende DIVs
-	$message = preg_replace('=\r *\r=i', "\n", $message);
-	$message = str_replace("\r", "\n", $message);
-
-	$message = strip_tags($message);
-
-	$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-
-	if (!$compact && ($message != '')) {
-		foreach ($urls as $id => $url) {
-			if ($url != '' && strpos($message, $url) === false) {
-				$message .= "\n" . $url . ' ';
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-	$message = str_replace("\n«", "«\n", $message);
-	$message = str_replace("»\n", "\n»", $message);
-
-	do {
-		$oldmessage = $message;
-		$message = str_replace("\n\n\n", "\n\n", $message);
-	} while ($oldmessage != $message);
-
-	$message = quotelevel(trim($message), $wraplength);
-
-	return trim($message);
-}
diff --git a/mod/babel.php b/mod/babel.php
index 99e6f4078d..a2d197599c 100644
--- a/mod/babel.php
+++ b/mod/babel.php
@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@
  * @file mod/babel.php
  */
 
-use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
-use Friendica\Content\Text\Markdown;
+use Friendica\Content\Text;
 use Friendica\Core\L10n;
 
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
-
 function visible_lf($s)
 {
 	return str_replace("\n", '<br />', $s);
@@ -37,31 +34,31 @@ function babel_content()
 		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('Source input: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= visible_lf($text) . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$html = BBCode::convert($text);
-		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t("bbcode \x28raw HTML\x28: ") . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
+		$html = Text\BBCode::convert($text);
+		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t("BBCode::convert \x28raw HTML\x28: ") . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= htmlspecialchars($html) . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('bbcode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
+		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::convert: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= $html . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$bbcode = html2bbcode($html);
-		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('bbcode => html2bbcode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
+		$bbcode = Text\HTML::toBBCode($html);
+		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::convert => HTML::toBBCode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= visible_lf($bbcode) . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$diaspora = BBCode::toMarkdown($text);
+		$diaspora = Text\BBCode::toMarkdown($text);
 		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::toMarkdown: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= visible_lf($diaspora) . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$html = Markdown::convert($diaspora);
+		$html = Text\Markdown::convert($diaspora);
 		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::toMarkdown =>  Markdown::convert: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= $html . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$bbcode = Markdown::toBBCode($diaspora);
+		$bbcode = Text\Markdown::toBBCode($diaspora);
 		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::toMarkdown => Markdown::toBBCode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= visible_lf($bbcode) . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$bbcode = html2bbcode($html);
-		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('bbcode => html2bbcode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
+		$bbcode = Text\HTML::toBBCode($html);
+		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('BBCode::toMarkdown =>  Markdown::convert => HTML::toBBCode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= visible_lf($bbcode) . EOL . EOL;
 	}
 
@@ -70,8 +67,8 @@ function babel_content()
 		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t("Source input \x28Diaspora format\x29: ") . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= '<pre>' . $d2bbtext . '</pre>' . EOL . EOL;
 
-		$bb = Markdown::toBBCode($d2bbtext);
-		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('diaspora2bb: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
+		$bb = Text\Markdown::toBBCode($d2bbtext);
+		$o .= '<h2>' . L10n::t('Markdown::toBBCode: ') . '</h2>' . EOL . EOL;
 		$o .= '<pre>' . $bb . '</pre>' . EOL . EOL;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mod/display.php b/mod/display.php
index ab27b283b7..dfa8640309 100644
--- a/mod/display.php
+++ b/mod/display.php
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 use Friendica\App;
 use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
+use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 use Friendica\Core\ACL;
 use Friendica\Core\Config;
 use Friendica\Core\L10n;
@@ -367,10 +368,8 @@ function display_content(App $a, $update = false, $update_uid = 0) {
 	$o .= conversation($a, $items, 'display', $update_uid);
 
 	// Preparing the meta header
-	require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
-
-	$description = trim(html2plain(BBCode::convert($s[0]["body"], false), 0, true));
-	$title = trim(html2plain(BBCode::convert($s[0]["title"], false), 0, true));
+	$description = trim(HTML::toPlaintext(BBCode::convert($s[0]["body"], false), 0, true));
+	$title = trim(HTML::toPlaintext(BBCode::convert($s[0]["title"], false), 0, true));
 	$author_name = $s[0]["author-name"];
 
 	$image = $a->remove_baseurl($s[0]["author-thumb"]);
diff --git a/mod/item.php b/mod/item.php
index 8aa7c665af..1bbc085279 100644
--- a/mod/item.php
+++ b/mod/item.php
@@ -808,7 +808,6 @@ function item_post(App $a) {
 				$link = '<a href="' . System::baseUrl() . '/profile/' . $a->user['nickname'] . '"><img src="' . $author['thumb'] . '" alt="' . $a->user['username'] . '" /></a><br /><br />';
 				$html    = prepare_body($datarray);
 				$message = '<html><body>' . $link . $html . $disclaimer . '</body></html>';
-				include_once 'include/html2plain.php';
 				$params =  [
 					'fromName' => $a->user['username'],
 					'fromEmail' => $a->user['email'],
@@ -816,7 +815,7 @@ function item_post(App $a) {
 					'replyTo' => $a->user['email'],
 					'messageSubject' => $subject,
 					'htmlVersion' => $message,
-					'textVersion' => html2plain($html.$disclaimer)
+					'textVersion' => Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toPlaintext($html.$disclaimer)
 				];
 				Emailer::send($params);
 			}
diff --git a/mod/oexchange.php b/mod/oexchange.php
index feca39d353..9f844e1db3 100644
--- a/mod/oexchange.php
+++ b/mod/oexchange.php
@@ -46,13 +46,11 @@ function oexchange_content(App $a) {
 		return;
 	}
 
-	require_once('include/html2bbcode.php');
-
 	$post = [];
 
 	$post['profile_uid'] = local_user();
 	$post['return'] = '/oexchange/done' ;
-	$post['body'] = html2bbcode($s);
+	$post['body'] = Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toBBCode($s);
 	$post['type'] = 'wall';
 
 	$_REQUEST = $post;
diff --git a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
index 9c7dac2605..1148103054 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\ParseUrl;
 use League\HTMLToMarkdown\HtmlConverter;
 
 require_once "include/event.php";
-require_once "include/html2plain.php";
 require_once "mod/proxy.php";
 
 class BBCode extends BaseObject
@@ -413,7 +412,7 @@ class BBCode extends BaseObject
 		}
 
 		$html = self::convert($post["text"].$post["after"], false, $htmlmode);
-		$msg = html2plain($html, 0, true);
+		$msg = HTML::toPlaintext($html, 0, true);
 		$msg = trim(html_entity_decode($msg, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
 
 		$link = "";
@@ -764,27 +763,6 @@ class BBCode extends BaseObject
 		return $text . "\n" . $data["after"];
 	}
 
-	private static function cleanCss($input)
-	{
-		$cleaned = "";
-
-		$input = strtolower($input);
-
-		for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($input); $i++) {
-			$char = substr($input, $i, 1);
-
-			if (($char >= "a") && ($char <= "z")) {
-				$cleaned .= $char;
-			}
-
-			if (!(strpos(" #;:0123456789-_.%", $char) === false)) {
-				$cleaned .= $char;
-			}
-		}
-
-		return $cleaned;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Converts [url] BBCodes in a format that looks fine on Mastodon. (callback function)
 	 *
@@ -1629,7 +1607,7 @@ class BBCode extends BaseObject
 		$text = preg_replace_callback(
 			"(\[style=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/style\])ism",
 			function ($match) {
-				return "<span style=\"" . self::cleanCss($match[1]) . ";\">" . $match[2] . "</span>";
+				return "<span style=\"" . HTML::sanitizeCSS($match[1]) . ";\">" . $match[2] . "</span>";
 			},
 			$text
 		);
@@ -1638,7 +1616,7 @@ class BBCode extends BaseObject
 		$text = preg_replace_callback(
 			"(\[class=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/class\])ism",
 			function ($match) {
-				return "<span class=\"" . self::cleanCss($match[1]) . "\">" . $match[2] . "</span>";
+				return "<span class=\"" . HTML::sanitizeCSS($match[1]) . "\">" . $match[2] . "</span>";
 			},
 			$text
 		);
diff --git a/src/Content/Text/HTML.php b/src/Content/Text/HTML.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f82a254d3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Content/Text/HTML.php
@@ -0,0 +1,674 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file src/Content/Text/HTML.php
+ */
+
+namespace Friendica\Content\Text;
+
+use DOMDocument;
+use DOMXPath;
+use Friendica\Core\Addon;
+use Friendica\Util\Network;
+use Friendica\Util\XML;
+
+class HTML
+{
+	public static function sanitizeCSS($input)
+	{
+		$cleaned = "";
+
+		$input = strtolower($input);
+
+		for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($input); $i++) {
+			$char = substr($input, $i, 1);
+
+			if (($char >= "a") && ($char <= "z")) {
+				$cleaned .= $char;
+			}
+
+			if (!(strpos(" #;:0123456789-_.%", $char) === false)) {
+				$cleaned .= $char;
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $cleaned;
+	}
+
+	private static function tagToBBCode(DOMDocument $doc, $tag, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb)
+	{
+		do {
+			$done = self::tagToBBCodeSub($doc, $tag, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb);
+		} while ($done);
+	}
+
+	private static function tagToBBCodeSub(DOMDocument $doc, $tag, $attributes, $startbb, $endbb)
+	{
+		$savestart = str_replace('$', '\x01', $startbb);
+		$replace = false;
+
+		$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
+
+		$list = $xpath->query("//" . $tag);
+		foreach ($list as $node) {
+			$attr = [];
+			if ($node->attributes->length) {
+				foreach ($node->attributes as $attribute) {
+					$attr[$attribute->name] = $attribute->value;
+				}
+			}
+
+			$replace = true;
+
+			$startbb = $savestart;
+
+			$i = 0;
+
+			foreach ($attributes as $attribute => $value) {
+				$startbb = str_replace('\x01' . ++$i, '$1', $startbb);
+				if (strpos('*' . $startbb, '$1') > 0) {
+					if ($replace && (@$attr[$attribute] != '')) {
+						$startbb = preg_replace($value, $startbb, $attr[$attribute], -1, $count);
+
+						// If nothing could be changed
+						if ($count == 0) {
+							$replace = false;
+						}
+					} else {
+						$replace = false;
+					}
+				} else {
+					if (@$attr[$attribute] != $value) {
+						$replace = false;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+
+			if ($replace) {
+				$StartCode = $doc->createTextNode($startbb);
+				$EndCode = $doc->createTextNode($endbb);
+
+				$node->parentNode->insertBefore($StartCode, $node);
+
+				if ($node->hasChildNodes()) {
+					foreach ($node->childNodes as $child) {
+						$newNode = $child->cloneNode(true);
+						$node->parentNode->insertBefore($newNode, $node);
+					}
+				}
+
+				$node->parentNode->insertBefore($EndCode, $node);
+				$node->parentNode->removeChild($node);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $replace;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Made by: ike@piratenpartei.de
+	 * Originally made for the syncom project: http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Syncom
+	 * 					https://github.com/annando/Syncom
+	 *
+	 * @brief Converter for HTML to BBCode
+	 * @param string $message
+	 * @param string $basepath
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function toBBCode($message, $basepath = '')
+	{
+		$message = str_replace("\r", "", $message);
+
+		// Removing code blocks before the whitespace removal processing below
+		$codeblocks = [];
+		$message = preg_replace_callback(
+			'#<pre><code(?: class="([^"]*)")?>(.*)</code></pre>#iUs',
+			function ($matches) use (&$codeblocks) {
+				$return = '[codeblock-' . count($codeblocks) . ']';
+
+				$prefix = '[code]';
+				if ($matches[1] != '') {
+					$prefix = '[code=' . $matches[1] . ']';
+				}
+
+				$codeblocks[] = $prefix . trim($matches[2]) . '[/code]';
+				return $return;
+			},
+			$message
+		);
+
+		$message = str_replace(
+			[
+			"<li><p>",
+			"</p></li>",
+			], [
+			"<li>",
+			"</li>",
+			], $message
+		);
+
+		// remove namespaces
+		$message = preg_replace('=<(\w+):(.+?)>=', '<removeme>', $message);
+		$message = preg_replace('=</(\w+):(.+?)>=', '</removeme>', $message);
+
+		$doc = new DOMDocument();
+		$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
+
+		$message = mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
+
+		@$doc->loadHTML($message);
+
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'style');
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'head');
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'title');
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'meta');
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'xml');
+		XML::deleteNode($doc, 'removeme');
+
+		$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);
+		$list = $xpath->query("//pre");
+		foreach ($list as $node) {
+			$node->nodeValue = str_replace("\n", "\r", $node->nodeValue);
+		}
+
+		$message = $doc->saveHTML();
+		$message = str_replace(["\n<", ">\n", "\r", "\n", "\xC3\x82\xC2\xA0"], ["<", ">", "<br />", " ", ""], $message);
+		$message = preg_replace('= [\s]*=i', " ", $message);
+		@$doc->loadHTML($message);
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'html', [], "", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'body', [], "", "");
+
+		// Outlook-Quote - Variant 1
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'p', ['class' => 'MsoNormal', 'style' => 'margin-left:35.4pt'], '[quote]', '[/quote]');
+
+		// Outlook-Quote - Variant 2
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'div', ['style' => 'border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'],
+			'[quote]', '[/quote]');
+
+		// MyBB-Stuff
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['style' => 'text-decoration: underline;'], '[u]', '[/u]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['style' => 'font-style: italic;'], '[i]', '[/i]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['style' => 'font-weight: bold;'], '[b]', '[/b]');
+
+		/* self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'size'=>'/(\d+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][size=$2][color=$3]', '[/color][/size][/font]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('size'=>'/(\d+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[size=$1][color=$2]', '[/color][/size]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'size'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/', 'color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[font=$1][color=$3]', '[/color][/font]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('face'=>'/([\w ]+)/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('size'=>'/(\d+)/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'font', array('color'=>'/(.+)/'), '[color=$1]', '[/color]');
+		 */
+		// Untested
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*color:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1][font=$2][color=$3]', '[/color][/font][/size]');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(\d+)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-size:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[size=$1]', '[/size]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['style' => '/.*color:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'], '[color="$1"]', '[/color]');
+
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-size:\s*(\d+?)pt.*/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*font-size:\s*(\d+?)px.*/'), '[font=$1][size=$2]', '[/size][/font]');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'div', array('style'=>'/.*font-family:\s*(.+?)[,;].*/'), '[font=$1]', '[/font]');
+		// Importing the classes - interesting for importing of posts from third party networks that were exported from friendica
+		// Test
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('class'=>'/([\w ]+)/'), '[class=$1]', '[/class]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['class' => 'type-link'], '[class=type-link]', '[/class]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', ['class' => 'type-video'], '[class=type-video]', '[/class]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'strong', [], '[b]', '[/b]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'em', [], '[i]', '[/i]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'b', [], '[b]', '[/b]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'i', [], '[i]', '[/i]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'u', [], '[u]', '[/u]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'big', [], "[size=large]", "[/size]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'small', [], "[size=small]", "[/size]");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'blockquote', [], '[quote]', '[/quote]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'br', [], "\n", '');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'p', ['class' => 'MsoNormal'], "\n", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'div', ['class' => 'MsoNormal'], "\r", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'pre', [], "", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'div', [], "\r", "\r");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'p', [], "\n", "\n");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'ul', [], "[list]", "[/list]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'ol', [], "[list=1]", "[/list]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'li', [], "[*]", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'hr', [], "[hr]", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'table', [], "", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'tr', [], "\n", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'td', [], "\t", "");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'table', array(), "[table]", "[/table]");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'th', array(), "[th]", "[/th]");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'tr', array(), "[tr]", "[/tr]");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'td', array(), "[td]", "[/td]");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h1', array(), "\n\n[size=xx-large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h2', array(), "\n\n[size=x-large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h3', array(), "\n\n[size=large][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h4', array(), "\n\n[size=medium][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h5', array(), "\n\n[size=small][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'h6', array(), "\n\n[size=x-small][b]", "[/b][/size]\n");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h1', [], "[h1]", "[/h1]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h2', [], "[h2]", "[/h2]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h3', [], "[h3]", "[/h3]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h4', [], "[h4]", "[/h4]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h5', [], "[h5]", "[/h5]");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h6', [], "[h6]", "[/h6]");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'a', ['href' => '/mailto:(.+)/'], '[mail=$1]', '[/mail]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'a', ['href' => '/(.+)/'], '[url=$1]', '[/url]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/', 'width' => '/(\d+)/', 'height' => '/(\d+)/'], '[img=$2x$3]$1',
+			'[/img]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], '[img]$1', '[/img]');
+
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'video', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], '[video]$1', '[/video]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'audio', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], '[audio]$1', '[/audio]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'iframe', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], '[iframe]$1', '[/iframe]');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'key', [], '[code]', '[/code]');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'code', [], '[code]', '[/code]');
+
+		$message = $doc->saveHTML();
+
+		// I'm removing something really disturbing
+		// Don't know exactly what it is
+		$message = str_replace(chr(194) . chr(160), ' ', $message);
+
+		$message = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $message);
+
+		// removing multiple DIVs
+		$message = preg_replace('=\r *\r=i', "\n", $message);
+		$message = str_replace("\r", "\n", $message);
+
+		Addon::callHooks('html2bbcode', $message);
+
+		$message = strip_tags($message);
+
+		$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+
+		$message = str_replace(["<"], ["&lt;"], $message);
+
+		// remove quotes if they don't make sense
+		$message = preg_replace('=\[/quote\][\s]*\[quote\]=i', "\n", $message);
+
+		$message = preg_replace('=\[quote\]\s*=i', "[quote]", $message);
+		$message = preg_replace('=\s*\[/quote\]=i', "[/quote]", $message);
+
+		do {
+			$oldmessage = $message;
+			$message = str_replace("\n \n", "\n\n", $message);
+		} while ($oldmessage != $message);
+
+		do {
+			$oldmessage = $message;
+			$message = str_replace("\n\n\n", "\n\n", $message);
+		} while ($oldmessage != $message);
+
+		do {
+			$oldmessage = $message;
+			$message = str_replace(
+				[
+				"[/size]\n\n",
+				"\n[hr]",
+				"[hr]\n",
+				"\n[list",
+				"[/list]\n",
+				"\n[/",
+				"[list]\n",
+				"[list=1]\n",
+				"\n[*]"],
+				[
+				"[/size]\n",
+				"[hr]",
+				"[hr]",
+				"[list",
+				"[/list]",
+				"[/",
+				"[list]",
+				"[list=1]",
+				"[*]"], $message
+			);
+		} while ($message != $oldmessage);
+
+		$message = str_replace(
+			['[b][b]', '[/b][/b]', '[i][i]', '[/i][/i]'], ['[b]', '[/b]', '[i]', '[/i]'], $message
+		);
+
+		// Handling Yahoo style of mails
+		$message = str_replace('[hr][b]From:[/b]', '[quote][b]From:[/b]', $message);
+
+		// Restore code blocks
+		$message = preg_replace_callback(
+			'#\[codeblock-([0-9]+)\]#iU',
+			function ($matches) use ($codeblocks) {
+				$return = '';
+				if (isset($codeblocks[intval($matches[1])])) {
+					$return = $codeblocks[$matches[1]];
+				}
+				return $return;
+			},
+			$message
+		);
+
+		$message = trim($message);
+
+		if ($basepath != '') {
+			$message = self::qualifyURLs($message, $basepath);
+		}
+
+		return $message;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Sub function to complete incomplete URL
+	 *
+	 * @param array  $matches  Result of preg_replace_callback
+	 * @param string $basepath Basepath that is used to complete the URL
+	 *
+	 * @return string The expanded URL
+	 */
+	private static function qualifyURLsSub($matches, $basepath)
+	{
+		$base = parse_url($basepath);
+		unset($base['query']);
+		unset($base['fragment']);
+
+		$link = $matches[0];
+		$url = $matches[1];
+
+		$parts = array_merge($base, parse_url($url));
+		$url2 = Network::unparseURL($parts);
+
+		return str_replace($url, $url2, $link);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @brief Complete incomplete URLs in BBCode
+	 *
+	 * @param string $body     Body with URLs
+	 * @param string $basepath Base path that is used to complete the URL
+	 *
+	 * @return string Body with expanded URLs
+	 */
+	private static function qualifyURLs($body, $basepath)
+	{
+		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
+
+		$matches = ["/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\].*?\[\/url\]/ism",
+			"/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism",
+			"/\[img\=[0-9]*x[0-9]*\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
+			"/\[img\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
+			"/\[zmg\=[0-9]*x[0-9]*\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism",
+			"/\[zmg\](.*?)\[\/zmg\]/ism",
+			"/\[video\](.*?)\[\/video\]/ism",
+			"/\[audio\](.*?)\[\/audio\]/ism",
+		];
+
+		foreach ($matches as $match) {
+			$body = preg_replace_callback(
+				$match, function ($match) use ($basepath) {
+					return self::qualifyURLsSub($match, $basepath);
+				},
+				$body
+			);
+		}
+		return $body;
+	}
+
+	private static function breakLines($line, $level, $wraplength = 75)
+	{
+		if ($wraplength == 0) {
+			$wraplength = 2000000;
+		}
+
+		$wraplen = $wraplength - $level;
+
+		$newlines = [];
+
+		do {
+			$oldline = $line;
+
+			$subline = substr($line, 0, $wraplen);
+
+			$pos = strrpos($subline, ' ');
+
+			if ($pos == 0) {
+				$pos = strpos($line, ' ');
+			}
+
+			if (($pos > 0) && strlen($line) > $wraplen) {
+				$newline = trim(substr($line, 0, $pos));
+				if ($level > 0) {
+					$newline = str_repeat(">", $level) . ' ' . $newline;
+				}
+
+				$newlines[] = $newline . " ";
+				$line = substr($line, $pos + 1);
+			}
+		} while ((strlen($line) > $wraplen) && !($oldline == $line));
+
+		if ($level > 0) {
+			$line = str_repeat(">", $level) . ' ' . $line;
+		}
+
+		$newlines[] = $line;
+
+		return implode($newlines, "\n");
+	}
+
+	private static function quoteLevel($message, $wraplength = 75)
+	{
+		$lines = explode("\n", $message);
+
+		$newlines = [];
+		$level = 0;
+		foreach ($lines as $line) {
+			$line = trim($line);
+			$startquote = false;
+			while (strpos("*" . $line, '[quote]') > 0) {
+				$level++;
+				$pos = strpos($line, '[quote]');
+				$line = substr($line, 0, $pos) . substr($line, $pos + 7);
+				$startquote = true;
+			}
+
+			$currlevel = $level;
+
+			while (strpos("*" . $line, '[/quote]') > 0) {
+				$level--;
+				if ($level < 0) {
+					$level = 0;
+				}
+
+				$pos = strpos($line, '[/quote]');
+				$line = substr($line, 0, $pos) . substr($line, $pos + 8);
+			}
+
+			if (!$startquote || ($line != '')) {
+				$newlines[] = self::breakLines($line, $currlevel, $wraplength);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return implode($newlines, "\n");
+	}
+
+	private static function collectURLs($message)
+	{
+		$pattern = '/<a.*?href="(.*?)".*?>(.*?)<\/a>/is';
+		preg_match_all($pattern, $message, $result, PREG_SET_ORDER);
+
+		$urls = [];
+		foreach ($result as $treffer) {
+			$ignore = false;
+
+			// A list of some links that should be ignored
+			$list = ["/user/", "/tag/", "/group/", "/profile/", "/search?search=", "/search?tag=", "mailto:", "/u/", "/node/",
+				"//facebook.com/profile.php?id=", "//plus.google.com/", "//twitter.com/"];
+			foreach ($list as $listitem) {
+				if (strpos($treffer[1], $listitem) !== false) {
+					$ignore = true;
+				}
+			}
+
+			if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//twitter.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/status/") !== false)) {
+				$ignore = false;
+			}
+
+			if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//plus.google.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/posts") !== false)) {
+				$ignore = false;
+			}
+
+			if ((strpos($treffer[1], "//plus.google.com/") !== false) && (strpos($treffer[1], "/photos") !== false)) {
+				$ignore = false;
+			}
+
+			if (!$ignore) {
+				$urls[$treffer[1]] = $treffer[1];
+			}
+		}
+
+		return $urls;
+	}
+
+	public static function toPlaintext($html, $wraplength = 75, $compact = false)
+	{
+		global $lang;
+
+		$message = str_replace("\r", "", $html);
+
+		$doc = new DOMDocument();
+		$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
+
+		$message = mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");
+
+		@$doc->loadHTML($message);
+
+		$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
+		$list = $xpath->query("//pre");
+		foreach ($list as $node) {
+			$node->nodeValue = str_replace("\n", "\r", $node->nodeValue);
+		}
+
+		$message = $doc->saveHTML();
+		$message = str_replace(["\n<", ">\n", "\r", "\n", "\xC3\x82\xC2\xA0"], ["<", ">", "<br>", " ", ""], $message);
+		$message = preg_replace('= [\s]*=i', " ", $message);
+
+		// Collecting all links
+		$urls = self::collectURLs($message);
+
+		@$doc->loadHTML($message);
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'html', [], '', '');
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'body', [], '', '');
+
+		// MyBB-Auszeichnungen
+		/*
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'text-decoration: underline;'), '_', '_');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'font-style: italic;'), '/', '/');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'span', array('style'=>'font-weight: bold;'), '*', '*');
+
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'strong', array(), '*', '*');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'b', array(), '*', '*');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'i', array(), '/', '/');
+		  self::node2BBCode($doc, 'u', array(), '_', '_');
+		 */
+
+		if ($compact) {
+			self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'blockquote', [], "»", "«");
+		} else {
+			self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'blockquote', [], '[quote]', "[/quote]\n");
+		}
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'br', [], "\n", '');
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'span', [], "", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'pre', [], "", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'div', [], "\r", "\r");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'p', [], "\n", "\n");
+
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'ul', array(), "\n[list]", "[/list]\n");
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'ol', array(), "\n[list=1]", "[/list]\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'li', [], "\n* ", "\n");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'hr', [], "\n" . str_repeat("-", 70) . "\n", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'tr', [], "\n", "");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'td', [], "\t", "");
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h1', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h2', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h3', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h4', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h5', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'h6', [], "\n\n*", "*\n");
+
+		// Problem: there is no reliable way to detect if it is a link to a tag or profile
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/'), ' $1 ', ' ', true);
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'a', array('href'=>'/(.+)/', 'rel'=>'oembed'), ' $1 ', '', true);
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'img', array('alt'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'img', array('title'=>'/(.+)/'), '$1', '');
+		//self::node2BBCode($doc, 'img', array(), '', '');
+		if (!$compact) {
+			self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' [img]$1', '[/img] ');
+		} else {
+			self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'img', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' ', ' ');
+		}
+
+		self::tagToBBCode($doc, 'iframe', ['src' => '/(.+)/'], ' $1 ', '');
+
+		$message = $doc->saveHTML();
+
+		if (!$compact) {
+			$message = str_replace("[img]", "", $message);
+			$message = str_replace("[/img]", "", $message);
+		}
+
+		// was ersetze ich da?
+		// Irgendein stoerrisches UTF-Zeug
+		$message = str_replace(chr(194) . chr(160), ' ', $message);
+
+		$message = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $message);
+
+		// Aufeinanderfolgende DIVs
+		$message = preg_replace('=\r *\r=i', "\n", $message);
+		$message = str_replace("\r", "\n", $message);
+
+		$message = strip_tags($message);
+
+		$message = html_entity_decode($message, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+
+		if (!$compact && ($message != '')) {
+			foreach ($urls as $id => $url) {
+				if ($url != '' && strpos($message, $url) === false) {
+					$message .= "\n" . $url . ' ';
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		$message = str_replace("\n«", "«\n", $message);
+		$message = str_replace("»\n", "\n»", $message);
+
+		do {
+			$oldmessage = $message;
+			$message = str_replace("\n\n\n", "\n\n", $message);
+		} while ($oldmessage != $message);
+
+		$message = self::quoteLevel(trim($message), $wraplength);
+
+		return trim($message);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/Content/Text/Markdown.php b/src/Content/Text/Markdown.php
index e7383a3fd7..ff6f890bb5 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/Markdown.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/Markdown.php
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ use Friendica\BaseObject;
 use Friendica\Model\Contact;
 use Michelf\MarkdownExtra;
 
-require_once  'include/html2bbcode.php';
-
 /**
  * Friendica-specific usage of Markdown
  *
@@ -94,7 +92,7 @@ class Markdown extends BaseObject
 
 		$s = str_replace('&#35;', '#', $s);
 
-		$s = html2bbcode($s);
+		$s = Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toBBCode($s);
 
 		// protect the recycle symbol from turning into a tag, but without unescaping angles and naked ampersands
 		$s = str_replace('&#x2672;', html_entity_decode('&#x2672;', ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), $s);
diff --git a/src/Core/NotificationsManager.php b/src/Core/NotificationsManager.php
index 0e552d2e09..95be5cdede 100644
--- a/src/Core/NotificationsManager.php
+++ b/src/Core/NotificationsManager.php
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\Temporal;
 use Friendica\Util\XML;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
 
 /**
  * @brief Methods for read and write notifications from/to database
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ class NotificationsManager extends BaseObject
 			$n['timestamp'] = strtotime($local_time);
 			$n['date_rel'] = Temporal::getRelativeDate($n['date']);
 			$n['msg_html'] = BBCode::convert($n['msg'], false);
-			$n['msg_plain'] = explode("\n", trim(html2plain($n['msg_html'], 0)))[0];
+			$n['msg_plain'] = explode("\n", trim(Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toPlaintext($n['msg_html'], 0)))[0];
 
 			$rets[] = $n;
 		}
diff --git a/src/Model/GContact.php b/src/Model/GContact.php
index 7b14b2cdc4..7a64751d64 100644
--- a/src/Model/GContact.php
+++ b/src/Model/GContact.php
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ use dba;
 use Exception;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 
 /**
  * @brief This class handles GlobalContact related functions
diff --git a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
index 5e7cc02a36..3def7d3a8c 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/DFRN.php
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ require_once "include/enotify.php";
 require_once "include/items.php";
 require_once "include/event.php";
 require_once "include/text.php";
-require_once "include/html2bbcode.php";
 
 /**
  * @brief This class contain functions to create and send DFRN XML files
@@ -2454,7 +2453,7 @@ class DFRN
 			$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
 			$item['body'] = $purifier->purify($item['body']);
 
-			$item['body'] = @html2bbcode($item['body']);
+			$item['body'] = @Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toBBCode($item['body']);
 		}
 
 		/// @todo We should check for a repeated post and if we know the repeated author.
diff --git a/src/Protocol/Email.php b/src/Protocol/Email.php
index b1eeb94d62..054a1f4ff7 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Email.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Email.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  */
 namespace Friendica\Protocol;
 
-require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
+use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 
 /**
  * @brief Email class
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class Email
 			if (trim($ret['body']) == '') {
 				$ret['body'] = self::messageGetPart($mbox, $uid, $struc, 0, 'plain');
 			} else {
-				$ret['body'] = html2bbcode($ret['body']);
+				$ret['body'] = HTML::toBBCode($ret['body']);
 			}
 		} else {
 			$text = '';
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class Email
 				}
 			}
 			if (trim($html) != '') {
-				$ret['body'] = html2bbcode($html);
+				$ret['body'] = HTML::toBBCode($html);
 			} else {
 				$ret['body'] = $text;
 			}
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ class Email
 		$body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
 		$body .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed\n\n";
 
-		$body .= html2plain($html)."\n";
+		$body .= Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toPlaintext($html)."\n";
 
 		$body .= "--=_".$part."\n";
 		$body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
diff --git a/src/Protocol/Feed.php b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
index 17234ce45a..c67df646b4 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/Feed.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/Feed.php
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ use DOMDocument;
 use DOMXPath;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 require_once 'include/items.php';
 
 /**
@@ -363,7 +362,7 @@ class Feed {
 			if (self::titleIsBody($item["title"], $body)) {
 				$item["title"] = "";
 			}
-			$item["body"] = html2bbcode($body, $basepath);
+			$item["body"] = Friendica\Content\Text\HTML::toBBCode($body, $basepath);
 
 			if (($item["body"] == '') && ($item["title"] != '')) {
 				$item["body"] = $item["title"];
diff --git a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
index c6f840a66e..fd53772fd7 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/OStatus.php
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 namespace Friendica\Protocol;
 
 use Friendica\Content\Text\BBCode;
+use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 use Friendica\Core\Cache;
 use Friendica\Core\Config;
 use Friendica\Core\L10n;
@@ -25,7 +26,6 @@ use DOMDocument;
 use DOMXPath;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 require_once 'include/items.php';
 require_once 'mod/share.php';
 require_once 'include/enotify.php';
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class OStatus
 
 			$value = $xpath->evaluate('atom:author/poco:note/text()', $context)->item(0)->nodeValue;
 			if ($value != "") {
-				$contact["about"] = html2bbcode($value);
+				$contact["about"] = HTML::toBBCode($value);
 			}
 
 			$value = $xpath->evaluate('atom:author/poco:address/poco:formatted/text()', $context)->item(0)->nodeValue;
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ class OStatus
 	 */
 	private static function processPost($xpath, $entry, &$item, $importer)
 	{
-		$item["body"] = html2bbcode($xpath->query('atom:content/text()', $entry)->item(0)->nodeValue);
+		$item["body"] = HTML::toBBCode($xpath->query('atom:content/text()', $entry)->item(0)->nodeValue);
 		$item["object-type"] = $xpath->query('activity:object-type/text()', $entry)->item(0)->nodeValue;
 		if (($item["object-type"] == ACTIVITY_OBJ_BOOKMARK) || ($item["object-type"] == ACTIVITY_OBJ_EVENT)) {
 			$item["title"] = $xpath->query('atom:title/text()', $entry)->item(0)->nodeValue;
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ class OStatus
 		if (($item["verb"] == ACTIVITY_POST) && $xpath->evaluate('boolean(atom:summary)', $entry)) {
 			$clear_text = $xpath->query('atom:summary/text()', $entry)->item(0)->nodeValue;
 
-			$item["body"] = html2bbcode($clear_text) . '[spoiler]' . $item["body"] . '[/spoiler]';
+			$item["body"] = HTML::toBBCode($clear_text) . '[spoiler]' . $item["body"] . '[/spoiler]';
 		}
 
 		if (($self != '') && empty($item['protocol'])) {
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ class OStatus
 		$item["author-link"] = $orig_author["author-link"];
 		$item["author-avatar"] = $orig_author["author-avatar"];
 
-		$item["body"] = html2bbcode($orig_body);
+		$item["body"] = HTML::toBBCode($orig_body);
 		$item["created"] = $orig_created;
 		$item["edited"] = $orig_edited;
 
diff --git a/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php b/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
index 5b419e42ef..46862b4065 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/PortableContact.php
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 namespace Friendica\Protocol;
 
+use Friendica\Content\Text\HTML;
 use Friendica\Core\Config;
 use Friendica\Core\Worker;
 use Friendica\Database\DBM;
@@ -23,7 +24,6 @@ use DOMXPath;
 use Exception;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
 
 class PortableContact
 {
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class PortableContact
 			}
 
 			if (isset($entry->aboutMe)) {
-				$about = html2bbcode($entry->aboutMe);
+				$about = HTML::toBBCode($entry->aboutMe);
 			}
 
 			if (isset($entry->gender)) {
@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ class PortableContact
 			}
 
 			if (isset($entry->aboutMe)) {
-				$about = html2bbcode($entry->aboutMe);
+				$about = HTML::toBBCode($entry->aboutMe);
 			}
 
 			if (isset($entry->gender)) {
diff --git a/src/Worker/Delivery.php b/src/Worker/Delivery.php
index fe6fad66b0..dc6caab3db 100644
--- a/src/Worker/Delivery.php
+++ b/src/Worker/Delivery.php
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ use Friendica\Protocol\Diaspora;
 use Friendica\Protocol\Email;
 use dba;
 
-require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
 require_once 'include/items.php';
 
 /// @todo This is some ugly code that needs to be split into several methods
diff --git a/src/Worker/Notifier.php b/src/Worker/Notifier.php
index b43639b845..edb0df33ad 100644
--- a/src/Worker/Notifier.php
+++ b/src/Worker/Notifier.php
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ use Friendica\Protocol\Salmon;
 use dba;
 
 require_once 'include/dba.php';
-require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
 require_once 'include/items.php';
 
 /*