📝 HTML to Markdown Converter

Convert HTML to clean Markdown instantly. Paste any HTML snippet — from simple paragraphs to complex tables, lists, and code blocks — and get properly formatted Markdown output. Runs entirely in your browser — no data leaves your device.

What Is an HTML to Markdown Converter?

This tool converts HTML markup into Markdown — the lightweight format used by GitHub, Stack Overflow, static site generators, and documentation platforms. Paste HTML from WYSIWYG editors, CMS exports, or raw web snippets, and the tool extracts headings (h1–h6), paragraphs, bold/italic text, links, images, ordered/unordered lists, blockquotes, code blocks, tables, and horizontal rules into clean Markdown. All processing is client-side — no server upload, no data collection.

📥 HTML Input

📤 Markdown Output

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📋 When to Use

Use this tool when you need to convert HTML content to Markdown for documentation, GitHub READMEs, static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Astro), or note-taking apps. Ideal for developers migrating from HTML-based CMS platforms, converting WYSIWYG editor output, or standardizing blog posts across formats.

⚙️ How It Works

The tool uses the browser's built-in DOMParser to parse your HTML input into a DOM tree, then recursively walks each node and converts it to its Markdown equivalent. Headings become #–######, emphasis tags become **bold** and *italic*, links become [text](url), images become ![alt](src), lists use - and 1., code blocks use triple backticks, tables use pipe-delimited format, and blockquotes use > prefixes. Scripts, styles, comments, and metadata are automatically stripped.

Limitations

Inline styling is stripped. Only semantic HTML elements are converted; CSS classes and inline styles are ignored.
Nested tables are not supported. Complex table layouts may produce unexpected output.
No Markdown-to-HTML reverse. This tool converts HTML to Markdown only, not the reverse.
~5 MB practical limit. Very large HTML documents may cause browser performance issues.

Privacy

All conversion runs entirely in your browser. No data is sent to any server. Your HTML input is processed in memory using the browser's built-in DOM parser and never persisted.

Frequently Asked Questions

What HTML tags are supported?

Headings (h1–h6), paragraphs, <strong>/<b>, <em>/<i>, <a>, <img>, <ul>/<ol>/<li>, <blockquote>, <pre>/<code>, <table>/<thead>/<tbody>/<tr>/<th>/<td>, <hr>, <br>, and <del>.

Does it handle inline formatting inside other elements?

Yes. Nested inline formatting like <li><strong>bold</strong> text</li> is properly converted.

How are code blocks handled?

<pre><code> blocks become fenced code blocks (```). Inline <code> tags become backtick-wrapped inline code.

Is my data sent anywhere?

No. All conversion happens in your browser using standard JavaScript APIs.