About this conversion
Convert HTML to Markdown to extract structured, editable content from a webpage or HTML email. Useful for migrating legacy CMS content into a Markdown-based platform, archiving an article in a portable format, or grabbing formatted text without all the HTML noise.
When this conversion is useful
- Migrating WordPress or HTML-CMS content into a Markdown-based static site
- Saving a webpage's article body for offline reading or note-taking
- Extracting structured text from an HTML email for re-use
- Cleaning scraped content into a portable, plain-text-friendly format
Quality and tradeoffs
The converter preserves headings, paragraphs, links, lists, code blocks, and basic emphasis. Complex layouts (multi-column, floats, embedded widgets, inline styles) don't translate — Markdown is intentionally simpler than HTML. JavaScript-driven content needs to be in the source HTML to be captured.
Frequently asked questions
What HTML elements get preserved?
Standard text structure: headings, paragraphs, links, lists, blockquotes, code blocks, bold/italic, images, and tables. CSS, scripts, and visual layout are dropped.
Will the Markdown render identically to the HTML?
It will reproduce the structure but not the visual styling. Markdown is platform-agnostic — your final look depends on the CSS or theme of wherever you publish it.
Why do some elements come through as raw HTML?
When something has no Markdown equivalent (e.g., complex tables, inline styles, custom attributes), the converter falls back to embedding the raw HTML so the content isn't lost.