HTML to Markdown Converter

This tool turns a block of HTML into Markdown so you can move web copy into systems that expect plain Markdown. It suits developers and writers migrating article bodies, README content, or help-center entries into a Markdown-based CMS, a static site generator, or a docs repo, where storing clean Markdown is easier to version and review than raw HTML.

It also helps with cleanup. If you have legacy HTML drafts, exported snippets, or copy pulled from a page's source, converting to Markdown strips the presentational markup down to readable text with headings, bullet points, and bold or italic emphasis intact. The output is easy to paste into a chat tool, an issue tracker, a note app, or anywhere lightweight formatting is preferred over tags.

Because the result is portable plain text, it is also handy for student and admin work, drafting documentation, or preparing source content before it goes into a publishing pipeline. It is best thought of as a quick first-pass converter for simple HTML rather than a full document migration tool.

The flow is direct: paste your HTML into the input box, run the tool, then copy the Markdown or download it as a .md file. Everything happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server and nothing is kept once you close the tab, so you can run sensitive or unpublished content without it leaving your device.

Conversion is rule-based and covers a deliberately small set of tags. It maps h1, h2, and h3 to Markdown headings, converts strong and b to bold, em and i to italic, list items to dash bullets, line breaks to newlines, and closes paragraphs with blank lines. It also decodes common HTML entities back into normal characters.

Anything outside that set is simply removed: the tool strips remaining tags rather than translating them. That keeps output clean and predictable for simple HTML, but it means the converter does not attempt to reconstruct complex page structure.

Several common elements are not converted and their text is flattened into plain paragraphs. Links lose their URLs (the anchor text stays, the href is dropped), images disappear entirely, and tables, blockquotes, and code or pre blocks are reduced to bare text without their Markdown equivalents. Headings below h3, namely h4 through h6, are also stripped to plain text.

List handling is intentionally basic. Every list item becomes a dash bullet, so numbered (ordered) lists lose their sequence, and nested lists are flattened to a single level. If list order or hierarchy matters, expect to re-add it by hand.

A frequent mistake is pasting an entire saved web page with its head, scripts, styles, and navigation. Those wrappers get stripped, which can leave stray fragments or unexpected gaps. You will get cleaner results by pasting just the content region you actually want, and by remembering that malformed or unclosed tags can cause the regex rules to miss a match.

Read the output top to bottom and confirm the structure survived: headings landed at the right levels, bold and italic emphasis is in the correct spots, and paragraph breaks fall where you expect. Then look specifically for what this tool drops, since that is where problems hide.

Scan for missing link destinations, absent images, and any tables, code blocks, or numbered lists that need to be rebuilt in Markdown by hand. Check that special characters and accented text decoded correctly, and that no leftover tag fragments slipped through from a complex source.

For anything official, financial, or legal, do not treat the converted Markdown as final. Verify it manually against the original HTML, restoring links, figures, and exact wording yourself, before publishing or submitting it anywhere it carries weight.