HTML to Markdown Converter

Features

• Convert HTML to Markdown and Markdown to HTML both ways
• Handles headings, bold, italic, links and images
• Converts lists, blockquotes, code blocks and simple tables
• Live output that updates as you type
• Runs entirely in your browser, nothing is uploaded

How to use it

1. Choose the direction you want to convert.
2. Paste your HTML or Markdown into the top box.
3. Read the converted result in the output box.
4. Copy the output, or swap to convert it back.

Why convert between HTML and Markdown

Markdown and HTML both describe formatted text, but they are aimed at different readers. HTML is what browsers actually render, precise and verbose, with an opening and closing tag around everything. Markdown is a lightweight shorthand meant to be readable as plain text, where a hash means a heading and asterisks mean emphasis. Writers, note-takers and documentation systems love Markdown because it stays legible even before it is rendered, while the web ultimately needs HTML.

Converting between the two comes up constantly. You might paste rich content from a web page and want clean Markdown for your notes or a README, or you might write in Markdown and need the HTML to drop into a template, an email or a content field that does not understand Markdown. This tool walks the structure of your input and rewrites it in the other syntax, mapping headings to headings, links to links, and lists to lists rather than doing a blind find and replace.

A converter like this focuses on the common, well-behaved elements, headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, links and images, lists, blockquotes, code and simple tables, which covers the vast majority of real content. Deeply nested markup, inline styles and unusual custom tags do not always have a Markdown equivalent, so they are simplified or passed through. For everyday writing and documentation the result is clean and ready to use, and because it runs in your browser you can convert private drafts without uploading them anywhere.