HTML to Markdown Converter

This conversion is inherently lossy, and that's worth setting expectations on upfront. HTML can express things Markdown simply has no syntax for: nested div containers, inline CSS styling, complex table structures with merged cells, custom data attributes. The converter discards all of that and keeps only what maps cleanly to Markdown, which is usually exactly what you want when the goal is extracting clean content rather than preserving a page's original visual design.

The mapping that does carry over is fairly direct: h1 through h6 become the matching number of hash symbols, strong and b become bold asterisks, em and i become italics, a tags become Markdown's bracket-and-parenthesis link syntax, and ordered or unordered lists convert to their Markdown equivalents.

Paste your raw HTML source in and the parser walks through the document structure, mapping each recognized tag to its Markdown equivalent and discarding the layout and styling scaffolding around it. The result is clean, plain text ready to drop into a documentation file or a Markdown-based CMS.

Badly broken HTML, missing closing tags, severely malformed nesting, can produce inconsistent output, since the parser has to make judgment calls about structure it can't fully resolve. Running messy markup through an HTML formatter first, to catch and visually confirm where tags are broken, usually improves the final result. Everything here runs locally, so pulling content from an internal wiki or a client's old site doesn't mean sending that content anywhere external.