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HTML to Markdown Converter Online

Strip messy HTML tags and convert web page markup, blog posts, and rich text documents into clean Markdown syntax. Transform headings, text formatting, links, images, blockquotes, and lists into lightweight text ready for GitHub, Obsidian, or Notion.

Transform HTML markup into clean Markdown

Paste raw HTML from a web page, content management system, or document export into the input area. The converter identifies headings, paragraph blocks, bold and italic formatting, links, and lists, emitting clean Markdown text.

Preserving structural formatting and links

Anchor tags are translated into bracketed Markdown link syntax, image tags become exclamation-prefixed image tokens, and blockquotes receive leading angle brackets. Paragraph breaks and list indentations are formatted cleanly.

Code blocks and preformatted text

Preformatted code blocks are converted into triple-backtick fenced blocks, retaining their programming language class names when present. Inline code elements are surrounded with single backticks.

Local sanitization and whitespace cleanup

The conversion occurs strictly in memory without network requests. Script tags, inline styles, and unneeded container tags are discarded, leaving clean text.

Technical references: CommonMark Specification · HTML Elements Reference

HTML to Markdown Converter FAQs

Markdown is lightweight, portable, human-readable, and supported by modern developer platforms, note apps like Obsidian, and documentation systems.
Containers like div and span have their inner text preserved while the surrounding wrapper tags are stripped cleanly.
Yes. Links become [text](url) and images become ![alt](src), preserving original destination URLs.
List items are prefixed with hyphens for unordered lists and numbers for ordered lists with appropriate indentation.
No. The entire extraction and conversion happens locally in your web browser thread.
Yes. You can paste the resulting Markdown into our Markdown to HTML Converter to regenerate HTML markup.
Yes. Common named character references such as &, <, >, and quotes are decoded back to plain text.
Embedded script and style elements are stripped entirely along with their inner contents to avoid contaminating the Markdown document.
If you copy the HTML source code from a browser inspect tool or CMS code editor, it will convert into structured Markdown.

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