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Convert HTML to Markdown and Markdown to HTML instantly. Clean output, accurate structure, handles headings, lists, links, tables, code blocks — free, no sign-up.
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Paste input and click Convert — or press Ctrl+EnterChoose HTML → MD to strip markup into clean Markdown, or MD → HTML to generate valid HTML from a Markdown source.
Drop in any HTML snippet, a full page, or a Markdown document. Click Convert or press Ctrl+Enter.
Toggle Preview to see rendered output. Copy to clipboard or download as a .md / .html file.
HTML ↔ Markdown Converter transforms content bidirectionally between HTML markup and Markdown syntax. It handles headings, bold, italic, links, images, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, code blocks, tables, and horizontal rules — producing clean, well-structured output in either direction.
The converter handles headings (h1–h6), paragraphs, bold, italic, links, images, unordered and ordered lists, blockquotes, inline code, fenced code blocks, horizontal rules, and tables. Unsupported elements are stripped with their text content preserved.
Simple content (headings, paragraphs, lists, links) round-trips cleanly. Complex nested structures or non-standard HTML may lose some formatting. For critical content, always review the output before using it in production.
No. All conversion happens directly in your browser using JavaScript. Your HTML or Markdown is never transmitted to any server, making this tool safe for internal documents, private code, and sensitive content.
Yes. Paste the full HTML including doctype and head tags. The converter strips script and style blocks automatically and focuses on extracting the content structure from the body into clean Markdown.
The Markdown → HTML direction follows CommonMark conventions. Fenced code blocks use triple backticks with optional language identifiers, tables use pipe syntax, and all generated HTML is valid and semantic.
HTML tables are converted to GitHub Flavored Markdown pipe tables with a separator row after the first header row. In the reverse direction, Markdown pipe tables are converted back to standard HTML <table> elements.
HTML and Markdown are the two dominant formats for structured text on the web. HTML is the native language of browsers — rich, precise, and universally supported. Markdown is the preferred format for developers, technical writers, and content creators — lightweight, readable in its raw form, and easy to version-control. This tool bridges the gap, letting you convert between the two formats instantly without writing any code.
The most common reason to convert HTML to Markdown is migrating content from a CMS or rich-text editor into a developer-friendly format. WordPress posts, Notion exports, Confluence pages, and email templates all produce HTML. When you want to store that content in a Git repository, publish it through a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll, or include it in a README file, you need Markdown. Doing this by hand is tedious and error-prone; a converter handles the structural transformation in seconds.
Another common use case is cleaning up HTML from web scraping. Scraped content often contains deeply nested div structures, inline styles, and span soup. Running it through an HTML-to-Markdown converter strips away all the presentation noise and leaves you with the actual content hierarchy.
Markdown is not directly renderable in most production environments without a build step. When you need to embed Markdown content in a PHP application, paste it into an HTML email, inject it into a CMS that only accepts HTML, or send it through an API that expects markup, you need valid HTML output. This converter gives you that immediately — no npm install, no build pipeline required.
The converter handles the full set of common Markdown and HTML constructs. In HTML → Markdown direction, it converts headings (h1 through h6), bold and italic text, hyperlinks, images, unordered and ordered lists, blockquotes, inline code, fenced code blocks with optional language hints, horizontal rules, and pipe tables. In Markdown → HTML direction, the same elements are reconstructed as clean, semantic HTML without inline styles or unnecessary attributes.
Table conversion is one of the trickier aspects of HTML ↔ Markdown translation. This tool converts HTML <table> elements to GitHub Flavored Markdown pipe tables with a properly aligned separator row. In the reverse direction, Markdown pipe tables become standard <table><thead><tbody> structures. The Preview tab lets you verify table rendering before copying the output.
When converting HTML to Markdown, <pre><code> blocks are wrapped in triple backtick fences. If the original HTML includes a language class (such as class="language-javascript"), the language identifier is preserved in the fence opener, enabling downstream syntax highlighting in tools like GitHub, VS Code, and Prism.js. Inline <code> elements become backtick-wrapped spans in Markdown and are correctly reconstructed in the reverse direction.