Convert simple HTML — headings, bold, italic, links and lists — back into Markdown text.
Try an example
Load a ready-made sample into this tool and run it. Every result you see is calculated live by the tool itself — nothing here is a pre-written answer.
Sample: input: <h1>Title</h1><p>Hello <strong>World</strong>.<...
How to Use
- Paste HTML into the box.
- Click Run.
- Copy the Markdown result.
What this HTML to Markdown converter does
This HTML to Markdown converter changes simple HTML back into Markdown, the plain-text format used in documentation, notes and many content systems. Headings, bold, italic, links and lists are converted into their Markdown equivalents, so a formatted page or email becomes text you can edit anywhere. Paste the HTML in and copy the Markdown out. The output is plain text you can save with an .md extension.
When to use it
Use it when content is trapped in HTML — an exported page, a rich-text email, an old CMS entry — and you want it in a notes app, a readme or a static site. The conversion is a starting draft: expect to tidy headings and spacing by hand once the markup has been stripped away.
Good to know
This is a simple converter for common tags. Complex layouts, tables and inline styles do not translate into Markdown and are reduced to plain text instead, so check the output where the original page relied on design. Nothing is hidden: what cannot be converted still appears as readable words.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to tables and styled content?
Tables, layout markup and inline styles have no simple Markdown equivalent here, so they are reduced to their text. The words survive in order, but the arrangement does not. For table-heavy pages, convert the text and rebuild the table manually.
Which tags convert properly?
The everyday ones: headings, paragraphs, bold, italic, links and bulleted or numbered lists. If your HTML sticks to those, the Markdown comes out clean. Rarer tags fall back to their text content rather than producing Markdown syntax.
Why convert back to Markdown at all?
Markdown is easy to read, diff and store, and it moves between tools without carrying a page's styling with it. Converting is a common first step when migrating content into documentation, note systems or text-based site generators.
How to use HTML to Markdown Converter
- Paste HTML into the box.
- Click Run.
- Copy the Markdown result.
Limitations
This is a simple converter for common tags; complex layouts, tables and styles are reduced to plain text.