How to Convert Pasted HTML Into Clean Markdown

Here's the actual process for converting HTML into Markdown with HTML to Markdown.

Step 1 - paste your HTML

Paste HTML into the input box - copied straight from a web page's source, exported from a CMS, or typed by hand. The Markdown output appears immediately below it, updating as you type or paste further changes.

Step 2 - copy the result

Once the Markdown looks right, click Copy. That's the whole tool - there's no separate Convert step, because the conversion runs continuously as you work.

What gets converted

Headings, paragraphs, bold and italic text, links, images, ordered and unordered lists (including lists nested inside list items), blockquotes, inline code, fenced code blocks, horizontal rules, and simple tables all convert to their correct Markdown syntax.

What's deliberately left out

Table cell alignment markers, definition lists, and footnotes aren't supported. These are genuinely rare in the kind of content people actually copy-paste off a web page, and each would meaningfully complicate the converter for a case most pasted content never hits. If your source has one of these, it falls through to plain text rather than breaking the rest of the conversion.

Why there's no error state

HTML doesn't have a real concept of "invalid" the way JSON does - browsers themselves are built to recover gracefully from malformed markup on any real web page, and this tool's parser does the same thing. Paste something odd or incomplete and you'll get a reasonable result rather than an error message, the same way a browser tab would just render it as best it can.

What happens to scripts, styles, and other non-content tags

Anything inside a `<script>`, `<style>`, `<iframe>`, or similar non-content tag is skipped entirely - not converted, not included as text, just left out, the same way you'd want it to be for a piece of content you're about to paste into a README.

Nothing here uploads anywhere

The conversion happens entirely inside the browser tab. Even if your pasted HTML references a remote image or stylesheet, nothing is ever fetched over the network - the conversion only reads the markup structure, it never loads what that markup points to.

For why a direct paste causes problems in the first place, see the background piece. For moving a CMS export into a wiki specifically, this guide covers it. Or convert HTML now.