Convert HTML to Markdown Online Free
Strip away HTML tags and convert web content into clean, readable Markdown. Headings, links, images, lists, and formatting are all preserved as Markdown syntax.
To convert HTML to Markdown, drop your .html file onto the converter. The HTML is parsed and converted to Markdown using TurndownJS. Tags become Markdown syntax: <h1> becomes #, <strong> becomes **, <a> becomes [text](url). Runs in your browser.
Convert HTML to Markdown
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HTML vs Markdown: Format Comparison
Key differences between the two formats
When to Convert
Common scenarios where this conversion is useful
Migrating web content to documentation
Convert web pages to Markdown for static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Astro), wikis (Notion, Obsidian), or GitHub documentation.
Cleaning up web scraping output
Convert scraped HTML content into clean Markdown for analysis, storage, or publishing in a readable format.
Creating README files
Convert existing HTML documentation or web pages into Markdown README files for GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories.
Content portability
Convert blog posts or articles from HTML to Markdown for migration between CMS platforms, or for offline reading in any text editor.
How to Convert HTML to Markdown
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Upload your HTML file
Drag and drop your .html file onto the converter, or click to browse. Full HTML documents and fragments are both accepted.
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Automatic conversion
HTML tags are mapped to Markdown syntax. Headings, links, images, bold, italic, lists, code blocks, and tables are all converted.
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Download the Markdown result
Click Download to save your .md file. The output is clean Markdown ready for use in any Markdown-compatible system.
Frequently Asked Questions
Headings (<h1>-<h6>), paragraphs, links, images, bold (<strong>/<b>), italic (<em>/<i>), lists (<ul>/<ol>), code (<code>/<pre>), blockquotes, and tables are all converted to their Markdown equivalents.
All CSS styles, classes, IDs, and inline styles are stripped. Markdown does not support visual styling, so only the semantic content is preserved.
Yes. HTML tables are converted to Markdown pipe tables. Complex tables with colspan, rowspan, or nested tables may be simplified.
Script tags, style tags, and other non-content elements are removed. Only the document content is converted to Markdown.
Images become  in Markdown. The alt attribute and src URL are preserved. Width/height attributes are lost since Markdown does not support sizing.
Yes. If your file is a complete HTML document with <html>, <head>, and <body> tags, only the body content is converted. Meta tags and head content are ignored.
Iframes and embedded objects (video, audio) cannot be represented in standard Markdown and are removed from the output.
Yes. The converter handles pages with thousands of elements. Conversion is instant since it runs in your browser.
Yes. The output uses GFM conventions including fenced code blocks (```), pipe tables, and strikethrough (~~) where applicable.
Yes. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. No HTML content is uploaded to any server.
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