Convert HTML into tidy Markdown, ready to copy.
HTML to Markdown does the reverse of what most people expect. You feed it a chunk of HTML, the kind you might copy from a web page or export from an editor, and it hands back clean Markdown, the lightweight plain text format that is far easier to read and edit. The problem it solves is clutter. Copied HTML is full of tags, attributes, and nesting that make it painful to reuse, while the same content in Markdown is tidy and portable.
You use it by pasting your HTML into the input area, at which point the Markdown version appears ready to copy. You can grab the whole result and drop it into a notes app, a static site generator, a README, or anywhere else that speaks Markdown. There is nothing to configure to get a sensible result.
The converter maps HTML elements to their Markdown equivalents, so heading tags become hash marks, strong and em become bold and italic, anchor tags become link syntax, lists become dashed or numbered lines, and blockquotes and code blocks carry over intact. Where HTML has no clean Markdown equivalent, such as a complex styled div, the tool keeps the readable text and drops the decorative wrapper so you are left with content rather than markup noise.
Choose this over manually stripping tags whenever the source is more than a sentence or two. Deleting tags by hand is slow and error prone, and you almost always miss a stray span or an unclosed element. Converting in one step gives you consistent, clean Markdown that you can then tweak by hand if you want.
Typical uses include lifting an article from a web page into Markdown notes, migrating content out of a WYSIWYG editor that exports messy HTML, turning a marketing page's copy into a README or a docs page, and cleaning up email or CMS output so it can live in a plain text workflow. Writers who prefer Markdown use it to reclaim content trapped in HTML.
The whole process happens in your browser. Your HTML is converted locally, nothing is uploaded to any server, there is no account to create, and it is free. Since the conversion runs on your own device, it is instant for normal documents, and the only real ceiling is your device's memory on an unusually large page.
Markdown does not carry visual styling, so classes, inline style attributes, and other presentation details are dropped while the underlying content is kept. That is usually the point, since you end up with clean text rather than the original page's styling.
Yes, anchor tags convert to Markdown link syntax and image tags convert to Markdown image syntax, keeping the URLs and alt text where present. You get working references rather than raw HTML tags.
You can paste large blocks of HTML, though a full page often includes navigation, scripts, and footers you do not want. For the cleanest result, copy just the article or section you care about before converting.
HTML tables convert to Markdown's pipe table format where the structure allows, but very complex tables with merged cells have no direct Markdown equivalent. In those cases the content is preserved as readable rows even if the exact layout cannot be reproduced.
Non-content elements like script and style are not meaningful in Markdown, so their code is not carried into the output. You are left with the actual readable content of the page.
It will produce equivalent, well-formed HTML if you convert back, but not always byte-for-byte identical markup, because Markdown intentionally discards non-essential formatting. The meaning and structure survive, which is what matters for reuse.
No, everything is processed in your browser on your device. The content you paste is never sent to a server.
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