🔄 HTML to Markdown Converter

🌐 HTML Input

Characters: {{ htmlInput.length }} | HTML Tags: {{ countHtmlTags }}

⚙️ Options

Include conversion statistics Preserve whitespace formatting Remove HTML comments

📝 Markdown Output

Markdown Length: {{ markdownOutput.length }} characters

🧹 Cleaned HTML Preview

{{ cleanedHtml }}

📊 Conversion Statistics

Input HTML:

Length: {{ stats.html_length }} chars

Tags Removed: {{ stats.html_tags_removed }}

Output Markdown:

Length: {{ stats.markdown_length }} chars

Lines: {{ stats.markdown_lines }}

Elements Converted:

Headers: {{ stats.headers_converted }}

Links: {{ stats.links_converted }}

Images: {{ stats.images_converted }}

Content:

Lists: {{ stats.lists_converted }}

Code Blocks: {{ stats.code_blocks_converted }}

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ℹ️ About HTML to Markdown Converter

HTML to Markdown Converter turns common HTML document markup into plain-text Markdown for documentation, static-site posts, README files, wiki pages, and Markdown-based content management systems. Paste article HTML, email snippets, rich-text editor output, or copied web content to extract headings, paragraphs, links, images, lists, quotes, code, and table structure into a format that is easier to review in source control.

Markdown has several dialects, so this converter targets broadly portable syntax from the CommonMark specification and uses familiar extensions such as tables and strikethrough from GitHub Flavored Markdown. HTML input is treated as source markup defined by the WHATWG HTML Standard, with common named and numeric character references decoded according to the HTML named character reference table.

Common conversions include:

<h1> through <h6> headings to # through ###### heading markers.
<strong>, <em>, and <del> text to bold, italic, and strikethrough Markdown.
Anchor tags and image tags to [label](url) and ![alt](src) syntax.
Ordered and unordered HTML lists to numbered lists and hyphen bullets.
Inline code, fenced code blocks, blockquotes, horizontal rules, paragraph breaks, and simple tables.

Example: <h2>Install</h2><p>Run <code>npm test</code> before publishing.</p> becomes ## Install followed by Run `npm test` before publishing.

Limitations: HTML and Markdown are not one-to-one formats. This tool is best for content-oriented HTML, not full web pages with scripts, forms, interactive widgets, embedded styles, or deeply nested layout tables. Review the output before publishing, especially when the source contains custom attributes, nested lists, unusual whitespace, or platform-specific Markdown features.

API Usage Example:

POST /api/tools/web-dev/html-to-markdown
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "html": "<h1>Hello World</h1><p>This is <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text.</p><ul><li>Item 1</li><li>Item 2</li></ul>",
    "options": {
        "includeStats": true,
        "preserveWhitespace": false,
        "removeComments": true
    }
}