📝 HTML to Markdown ☆

Overview

Free HTML to Markdown Converter is a free online tool that converts HTML code or web page content into clean, readable Markdown format. Paste your HTML source code, and the tool intelligently strips HTML tags while preserving the semantic structure, converting headings to `#` syntax, bold text to `**`, italic to `*`, links to `[text](url)` format, images to ``, tables to Markdown tables, and ordered or unordered lists to their Markdown equivalents. The tool handles nested elements, inline styles, and complex table structures, producing Markdown that is ready for use in documentation, blog posts, GitHub READMEs, or CMS platforms. All processing happens locally in your browser. Your HTML is never uploaded to any server. There is no character limit, no sign-up, and no watermark. It is ideal for migrating web content to Markdown-based platforms, converting email newsletter templates to readable format, extracting content from HTML pages for documentation, or preparing web content for static site generators. Works in every modern browser across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.

How the converter preserves structure

The HTML is parsed into a DOM and walked node by node: headings map to # levels, strong and em to bold and italic, anchors to inline links, images to image syntax, and pre/code to fenced code blocks. Lists keep their nesting and numbering, blockquotes become > lines, and tables are converted row by row. Inline styles and presentational tags are dropped, which is exactly what makes the output clean and portable across Markdown editors and static site generators.

Processing details and limits

Property	HTML to Markdown behavior
Input	HTML source or copied page markup
Output	Markdown with headings, lists, links, images, code, quotes, tables
Nesting	Nested lists and inline formatting preserved
Dropped	Styling, scripts, comments and presentational markup
Processing	100% client-side JavaScript, no upload
Cost	Free, no account, no character limit

Privacy: pasted markup stays local

Newsletter templates, CMS exports and internal pages often contain unpublished content. Parsing happens in your browser: nothing is transmitted, stored or logged, and the page works offline after loading.

Conversion tips

• Copy the rendered selection or the raw source depending on fidelity needs.
• Check relative URLs. They often need rewriting for the new destination.
• Review nested lists after conversion; indentation rules vary between flavors.
• Use fenced code blocks when the target supports them.
• Run the output through a Markdown preview before publishing.

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Cleaning HTML before conversion

Markdown supports far fewer constructs than HTML, so a good conversion starts by deciding what to discard. Scripts, styles, tracking pixels, navigation blocks and cookie banners carry no document meaning and should be stripped before anything else; keeping them fills the output with noise. Semantic tags map cleanly: h1, h6 become hash headings, p becomes a paragraph, strong and em become bold and italic, a becomes a link and blockquote becomes a quote. Lists need care because nesting depth determines indentation, and a single misaligned level breaks the whole list. Code is the other common trap: inline code needs backticks, and a fenced block must use a delimiter long enough to survive any backticks inside the snippet, four backticks around a block that contains three. HTML entities should be decoded so the reader sees & as & rather than the escape sequence. Whitespace deserves a decision too: collapsing runs of spaces and blank lines keeps the Markdown readable, but collapsing inside preformatted blocks destroys alignment. Finally, choose your dialect: GitHub-flavoured Markdown adds tables, task lists and strikethrough, while strict CommonMark ignores them. The conversion runs entirely in the browser, so internal wikis, documentation drafts and client content stay on your machine.