Convert HTML markup into clean Markdown syntax with support for tables and lists.
Enter the HTML code you want to convert to Markdown.
See the Markdown output generated automatically as you type.
Click copy to grab the clean Markdown text.
HTML to Markdown Converter reads pasted HTML as structured markup and rewrites recognizable elements as Markdown text: paragraphs become separated blocks, links keep their destinations, emphasis becomes Markdown delimiters, and list and table structure is represented in text form. It is intended for source conversion, not for reproducing a rendered page. The common surprise is that CSS, classes, dimensions, and interactive behavior have no general Markdown equivalent, so visual fidelity is not the result. Because the conversion runs in the browser, source pasted from private documentation is not uploaded.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
<p>Ready.</p>
Expected output
Ready.
A paragraph is a block in Markdown, so its text remains while the p tags disappear. No Markdown punctuation is needed because the paragraph contains only plain text.
The converter works from element meaning rather than the browser's painted appearance. Paragraph, heading, emphasis, strong emphasis, link, blockquote, code, and list elements are mapped to their Markdown counterparts, with blank lines and indentation used to preserve block boundaries and nesting. Text content remains text; HTML-only attributes generally have nowhere to go in Markdown.
For lists, each list item becomes a marked line, and nesting is conveyed through indentation. For supported tables, row and cell boundaries become Markdown table structure rather than tab-separated plain text. This mapping is narrower than HTML: merged cells, per-cell styling, captions, and complex block content inside a cell cannot all be represented by ordinary Markdown table syntax.
No. HTML-to-Markdown conversion is normally lossy: multiple HTML structures can produce the same Markdown, and attributes such as class, id, style, and data values have no standard Markdown representation. Keep the original HTML if you may need its styling hooks, detailed semantics, or exact table structure later.
Not always. Pipe tables are an extension used by GitHub Flavored Markdown, not part of the CommonMark core specification. A destination supporting only core CommonMark may display the pipe characters as ordinary text. Preview the converted table in the exact editor, renderer, or publishing system where it will be used.
The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.
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