HTML to Markdown
Convert messy HTML into clean Markdown
Paste HTML — get clean Markdown out. Useful for migrating CMS content to a static site, scrubbing rich text into plain prose, or piping content into LLMs.
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What is a HTML to Markdown?
Static site generators (Hugo, Astro, Next.js, Vite SSG) want content as Markdown. Most CMSes (WordPress, Drupal, Webflow) export HTML. Manually converting hundreds of articles is impossible. This tool runs Turndown — the de-facto JS HTML-to-Markdown library — in your browser.
Paste HTML, get Markdown out. Tables, code blocks, nested lists, links, images — all preserved. Inline styles and `<div>` chrome are stripped. The output is GitHub-flavored Markdown, which renders correctly in every modern static site generator.
Common use cases: WordPress export → Hugo migration, scrubbing copy-pasted Word/Google Doc HTML into plain Markdown, prepping content for LLM prompts (which work better with Markdown than HTML), or sanitising rich-text editor output before saving to your DB.
Why use this HTML to Markdown
Built for Indians, by Indians. Every number, every formula, every slab — tuned to FY 2026-27 reality.
Live conversion
Paste HTML, see Markdown render instantly.
Tables preserved
GFM table syntax for clean roundtripping.
Code blocks intact
Fenced code blocks with language hints when present.
Browser-only
Your HTML never leaves the device. Useful for confidential content.
Using the HTML to Markdown in 4 steps
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Paste HTML
Copy from your CMS export, browser inspector, or rich-text editor.
Read the Markdown
Output renders in the right pane instantly.
Copy or download
Click "Copy" to put on clipboard, or save as .md.
Spot-check
Eyeball the Markdown for surprises — nested HTML often leaves stray classes that need cleanup.
Tips to get the most out of it
Strip CMS-injected wrapper divs before pasting. They convert to noise.
For migrations, always run a few sample articles through first to discover edge cases (custom shortcodes, embeds, footnotes) before bulk-processing.
Markdown does not support arbitrary inline HTML perfectly — for complex layouts (multi-column, custom widgets), keep them as HTML in the Markdown file (raw HTML is allowed).
Run the output through a Markdown linter (markdownlint) before committing to your repo. Catches accidental syntax errors from malformed source HTML.
Real-world scenarios
How Indians actually use this tool — concrete inputs, concrete outcomes.
WordPress to Hugo migration
Blog migrates 80 articles from WordPress to Hugo. Exports HTML for each, batch-converts via this tool, drops .md files into Hugo content folder. 80 articles in 2 hours.
LLM prompt prep
Engineer feeds product docs into an LLM. Raw HTML wastes tokens on `<div>` chrome. Converts to Markdown first → 40% fewer tokens, cleaner prompts, better completions.
Rich-text scrub
Marketing pastes content from a Word doc into the CMS but the source contains 10,000 lines of MS Office HTML noise. Pastes into this tool, gets clean Markdown back, repaste into the editor.
Frequently Asked Questions
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All standard tags — headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, links, images, code blocks, blockquotes, emphasis. Custom elements are stripped or kept as raw HTML.
Yes — `<img>` tags become `` Markdown. The image files stay where they are; you may need to migrate URLs separately.
GitHub-flavored Markdown (GFM) — tables, fenced code blocks, task lists. Renders cleanly in Hugo, Astro, Next, Docusaurus, MkDocs, Hashnode, GitHub.
Math is preserved as raw — Markdown lacks native math support. Most static site generators add a math plugin separately.
Mostly. Markdown → HTML is lossless for everything Markdown supports natively. Custom HTML in the source survives because GFM allows raw HTML inline.
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