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HTML to Markdown Converter

Paste HTML and get clean Markdown - headings, lists, links, images, tables and code blocks all converted accurately.

HTML Input
Markdown Output

HTML to Markdown Converter

Markdown is a lightweight plain-text formatting language created by John Gruber in 2004, designed to be readable as plain text while converting cleanly to HTML. It has become the dominant documentation format in software development, adopted by GitHub (founded 2008), GitLab, Stack Overflow, Reddit, and virtually every developer documentation platform. HTML (HyperText Markup Language), while powerful, uses verbose tag syntax that becomes unwieldy for writing and editing. Converting HTML to Markdown produces clean, portable, human-readable content suitable for documentation, README files, and CMS platforms.

Common Use Cases for Developers

Indian developers working in open-source projects, technical bloggers publishing on platforms like Dev.to and Hashnode, and documentation writers for software companies frequently need to convert HTML content to Markdown. CMS migrations - moving content from legacy HTML-based systems to modern headless CMS platforms like Contentful, Sanity, or Ghost - require bulk HTML-to-Markdown conversion. GitHub's 94 million developers worldwide (including a rapidly growing Indian developer community of over 10 million) contribute documentation almost exclusively in Markdown format.

Turndown.js Powered Conversion

This converter uses Turndown.js, the industry-standard JavaScript library for HTML-to-Markdown conversion, processing all content entirely in the browser with no server-side data transmission. It supports headings (h1-h6), ordered and unordered lists, bold and italic emphasis, hyperlinks, inline code, code blocks, blockquotes, and tables. The output can be copied to clipboard or downloaded as a .md file. Technical writers, content strategists at Indian digital agencies, and full-stack developers will find this tool saves significant manual reformatting time during content migration projects.

HTML to Markdown Questions

Markdown is a lightweight text format that is human-readable and converts to HTML. Converting HTML to Markdown is useful when migrating content to GitHub, Notion, Obsidian, Ghost, Jekyll, Hugo, or any static site generator. It is also ideal for creating README files and documentation from existing HTML pages.

Supported elements: headings (h1–h6), paragraphs, bold/italic, links, images, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, code and pre blocks, horizontal rules, and tables (with GFM table extension). Inline styles and complex CSS are not converted.

ATX style uses hash characters: # Heading 1, ## Heading 2. Setext style uses underlines: Heading 1 followed by === on the next line. ATX supports all 6 levels and is more widely compatible. Our tool defaults to ATX - the most common Markdown convention.

Yes - with GFM Tables enabled, HTML tables are converted to pipe-separated Markdown table syntax. Note that complex tables with merged cells (colspan/rowspan) cannot be represented in standard Markdown and will be simplified.

The output works with GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, Bear, Typora, Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Ghost CMS, VS Code Markdown preview, and virtually any Markdown-supporting editor. For platform-specific extensions (frontmatter, MDX), you may need minor adjustments.