HTML → Markdown

Convert HTML code back to clean Markdown format

🔒 Your text is processed locally

How to Convert HTML to Markdown

  1. Paste your HTML. Drop the markup into the left box — a full article, a section, or a few tags. The conversion happens as you type.
  2. Read the Markdown. The right box fills with the converted text, with headings, links, lists, and emphasis rewritten in Markdown syntax.
  3. Check what came through. Scan the result for anything that didn't translate cleanly, such as tables or inline styles.
  4. Copy it. Click Copy and paste the Markdown into your notes app, editor, or CMS.

What This Tool Does

HTML is what the browser reads, but it's awkward to edit by hand. This converter strips the markup back to Markdown, which is far easier to read and rewrite. It's handy for saving a web page into a notes app, moving old HTML articles into a Markdown-based blog or static site, or cleaning up copied content so you're left with the text and structure rather than a wall of tags.

Your text is processed entirely inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, so whatever you paste stays on your own device.

What Converts Cleanly — and What Doesn't

Markdown covers the common building blocks of a document: headings, paragraphs, bold and italic, links, images, lists, blockquotes, and code. Anything built from those tags comes across neatly.

HTML can do a great deal that Markdown has no equivalent for — inline styles, CSS classes, custom attributes, embedded scripts, nested layout containers. Those either disappear or are left as raw HTML in the output, since Markdown allows HTML to pass through. That's usually what you want when the goal is clean text, but it does mean the conversion isn't reversible: running the result back through Markdown → HTML won't reproduce your original markup exactly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do some HTML tags remain in the output?

Markdown has no syntax for every HTML element, so anything without an equivalent is left as-is. Markdown permits inline HTML, which means the result still renders correctly.

Will I get my original HTML back if I convert it again?

Not exactly. Styling and attributes that Markdown can't express are dropped along the way, so a round trip produces simpler markup than you started with.

Can I paste a whole web page's source?

You can, but you'll get better results by pasting just the article body. Navigation, footers, and scripts add noise that has no meaningful Markdown equivalent.

Is my text sent to a server?

No. The conversion runs locally in your browser, so nothing you paste ever leaves your device.