HTML to Markdown Converter — Free Online Tool

Standard Markdown (CommonMark) does not include tables, but GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) does. The HTML to Markdown converter outputs GFM pipe tables by default. These are supported on GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, and most modern Markdown renderers. If your platform uses strict CommonMark, table HTML will be preserved as raw HTML.

HTML entities (&, <, ", {, etc.) are decoded during conversion and output as their literal characters in Markdown. For example, & becomes &, and ' becomes '. Special Markdown characters that could be misinterpreted (like * or _) are automatically escaped with a backslash.

HTML <img> tags are converted to Markdown image syntax: . The alt attribute becomes the alt text, the src becomes the URL, and the title attribute (if present) becomes the image tooltip. Note that relative image paths may need to be updated manually after converting, since the images will be referenced from a different location.

Markdown is a human-readable plain text format — easy to write, diff in git, and read without rendering. HTML is more powerful (supports complex layouts, inline styles, custom elements) but is harder to read as source and creates noisier git diffs. For documentation in code repositories, wikis, and static site generators, Markdown is almost universally preferred.

Yes. This is the reverse operation — all Markdown parsers output HTML. Use our Markdown Editor which includes a live preview (HTML rendering of Markdown) and a copy-as-HTML button. Most static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby) also output HTML from Markdown at build time.

The converter preserves all formatting that Markdown supports: headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, images, lists, code, blockquotes, tables, and horizontal rules. Formatting that has no Markdown equivalent — inline styles (font-size, color), divs, spans, custom classes — is stripped unless you toggle "Preserve unsupported HTML" in the options.

GitHub Flavored Markdown is GitHub's extension of the CommonMark spec that adds tables, task lists (- [x] checked), strikethrough (~~text~~), and fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting. It has become the de facto standard and is supported by GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Obsidian, and most modern Markdown tools. This converter outputs GFM by default.

Not directly with this browser-based tool, but you can convert individual pages. Copy the page source HTML and paste it into the converter. For bulk conversion of websites or content management systems, command-line tools like Pandoc or the turndown Node.js package are better suited. They can process hundreds of files in batch with a single script.