HTML to Markdown Converter(HTML to MD) — Free Online Converter
How to use it
Three steps. No installation, no signup.
Paste your HTML on the left
Copy from any source — a webpage's "View Source," a CMS export, an email's HTML view, an AI assistant's output. Paste it into the box.
Clean Markdown appears on the right
The converter strips out everything you don't need (styling, tracking, junk attributes) and keeps everything you do (headings, lists, tables, code, links, images).
Click "Copy Markdown"
Paste it into ChatGPT, Obsidian, Notion, your README, your static site, your notes app — anywhere that speaks Markdown.
What you can do with this converter
The most common reason to convert HTML to Markdown is to clean content up — strip styling, tracking, and clutter before feeding it to an AI assistant, migrating it to a new platform, or saving it in a notes app. Pick the section that matches your case.
Clean up webpages before pasting into ChatGPT or Claude
LLMs read Markdown more accurately than HTML — and use about 30–50% fewer tokens for the same content.
When you copy a webpage and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, all the HTML noise (<div class="sidebar-nav">, inline styles, ad markup) burns through your context window and confuses the model. Convert it to Markdown first and you'll get cleaner summaries, faster responses, and you'll fit more content into one conversation.
Migrate a blog from WordPress, Ghost, or Medium to Markdown
Export your blog as HTML, paste each post into this converter, save the result as .md.
Now you can move to a Markdown-based system — Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Eleventy, Notion, Obsidian — without rewriting anything by hand. The converter handles 100,000+ character documents without choking.
Pull a clean Markdown copy of any webpage
View the page's source HTML, paste it here, get the article body in Markdown.
Strips the navigation, footer, ads, and styling — you keep the actual content. Useful for archiving articles, building a personal knowledge base, or feeding content into an AI summarization workflow.
Convert HTML email to Markdown
Most email clients let you view the HTML source of a message.
Copy that, paste here, get readable Markdown. Useful for archiving newsletters into a notes app or for processing email content programmatically.
Convert an HTML table to a Markdown table
Paste a <table> block — get back a Markdown table with column alignment preserved.
Works for tables copied from Google Docs, Excel exports, webpages, or anywhere else.
Need to go the other way?
Switch to the Markdown → HTML tab to convert Markdown into HTML.
The most common use case for publishing Markdown content on a website or in an email.
Working specifically on Squarespace tables?
Use the Table for Squarespace tab.
It's a focused workflow for adding tables to Squarespace pages, where the built-in Markdown block doesn't render them.
What this converter cleans up automatically
When converting HTML to Markdown, the tool strips out things you don't want in clean Markdown:
- Inline styles (
style="color: red") — removed by default. Toggle off if you want them preserved. <font>,<center>, and other deprecated tags — removed.- Tracking pixels and zero-width images — removed.
- Empty
<div>and<span>elements — unwrapped. - Microsoft Word junk (when you paste from Word) — flattened.
- Smart quotes and special characters — preserved as proper Unicode.
What gets kept: every heading, paragraph, list, table, code block, blockquote, link, image (with alt text), and footnote.
Round-trip safe
Convert HTML → Markdown → HTML and the structure stays intact. This matters when you're migrating content: you can run a sanity check by converting back and confirming nothing important was lost. The reverse converter follows the CommonMark + GitHub-Flavored Markdown standards, so the output works with every Markdown tool you'll use afterward (GitHub, Obsidian, Notion, Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Eleventy, you name it).
Your text never leaves your computer
The conversion happens entirely in your browser. Nothing uploaded, nothing logged, nothing stored. Open developer tools → Network tab and watch — zero requests fire while you convert.
This matters more for HTML-to-Markdown than for almost any other tool, because the HTML you're cleaning often contains things you don't want sent to a third party: client emails, draft blog posts, internal documents, scraped article content. None of it leaves your machine.
Frequently asked questions
Paste your HTML into the left panel and copy the Markdown from the right panel. That's the whole workflow — no signup, no upload.
Yes — tables are preserved with column alignment intact. A 4-column HTML table becomes a 4-column Markdown table with the same headers and alignment.
Stripped by default because Markdown has no concept of inline styles, and removing them is usually what you want when converting messy webpage HTML to clean notes. There's a toggle if you need to keep styling-as-HTML inside the Markdown output.
Yes — right-click the page, choose "View Source" (or ⌘/Ctrl + U), copy everything, paste here. For just the article body, use a browser extension like "Reader Mode" first to strip the navigation, then "View Source" on the cleaned page.
Yes — the converter runs entirely in your browser. Verify in developer tools (Network tab) that no requests fire while you convert.
Two reasons. First, LLMs parse Markdown more reliably than HTML — fewer parsing errors, better summarization. Second, Markdown is denser: the same content uses 30–50% fewer tokens, which means longer documents fit into one prompt and you get faster responses.
Yes. Export your blog as HTML (most platforms have an HTML export option), then convert each post here. The output is GitHub-Flavored Markdown that works with every modern static site generator and CMS.
Yes — paste the HTML source of an email and get readable Markdown back. Most email clients show the HTML view through "Show original" or "View source" in the message menu.
Yes — drop multiple files into the editor and download them as a single zip of .md files.
Yes — click the "Markdown → HTML" tab at the top. Same converter, opposite direction.