Useful, free online tool that converts HTML to Markdown plain text. No ads, nonsense or garbage, just a HTML converter. Press button, get result.
| Name | HTML | MD |
| Full name | HTML - Hypertext Markup Language | MD, Markdown Documentation File |
| File extension | .html, .htm | .md |
| MIME type | text/html | |
| Developed by | W3C & WHATWG | John Gruber |
| Type of format | Document file format | Developer |
| Description | HyperText Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup language used to create web pages. Along with CSS, and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone technology, used by most websites to create visually engaging web pages, user interfaces for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications. | MD files are basically text files. The text inside is written in one of many different dialects of the Markdown development language. They are used to author documentation also in a plain text format, so they can be turned into the HTML format. Furthermore, MD files are used to version control source code because it makes it easy to compare the code to revisions that have been written in human-readable text. |
| Technical details | HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. | The data inside the MD file is saved in plain text. However, this text can contain inline symbols that indicate how certain parts of the text should be formatted; such as bold, italic, table formatting, and more. The developer of the MD file format, John Gruber, also developed a program using the Perl programming language which allows the easy conversion of MD files in Markdown to HTML. Next to MD, Markdown files can also be saved using the MARKDOWN file extension. |
| File conversion | HTML conversion | MD conversion |
| Associated programs | Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer. | Apple TextEdit (Mac), Daring Fireball Markdown (Windows, Mac & Linux), GitHUb (Web), GNU Emacs (Linux), gVim (Windows), MacroMates TextMate (Mac & Linux), MacVim (Mac), Microsoft Notepad (Windows), Microsoft WordPad (Windows), Vim (Linux), any other text editor |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML | https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ |
HTML to Markdown? Isn't Markdown used as a convienient syntax to write and read text for later display in a web browser as HTML (without having to deal with messy HTML tags). Why go the other way? Maybe you need to convert existing HTML pages into the now widely used and convienient Markdown (or CommonMark) format. Hopefully Markdown is now your main working format and you need to convert old content to it. You may need to work with HTML files sent to you, or you have documents in propriety formats that cannot be directly saved in Markdown format (e.g. Microsoft Word files). Finally you may grab nuggets of useful information from the web and want to add them to your Markdown documents, preserving some formatting. Whatever the reason here's some options to convert HTML to Markdown, from online tools to editing the raw HTML.
- As you know, Show down is a free library and it will remain free. However, maintaining and improving the library costs time and money. If you like our work and find our library useful, please donate through Patreon or directly through paypal.
- HTMLToMD ('Hello worldWorld') // 'Hello World' This will remove elements (and contents). Remove can be called multiple times, with the newly added remove filters taking precedence over older ones.
A Basic HTML Page for Testing
If you want to try some of the following HTML to Markdown conversion options you may need a basic HTML page to test them. There is a simple Hello World! HTML page here. In most browsers bring up the context menu (usually a right click) and select View source or View page source (it can also be accessed via the browser's menu options).
You can now select all or any part of the HTML code and copy it. Usually everything between the body tags is the most interesting. (Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C on Windows will highlight then copy all the HTML.)
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Use an Online HTML to Markdown Converter
There is a JavaScript file that will do HTML to Markdown conversion on GitHub. The to-markdown project by Dom Christie has a page that accepts HTML and shows Markdown:
The converted Markdown can be copied and pasted into your documents. Don't forget to save any images or other media from the web that are referenced by the Markdown if you need them. (In most browsers use the context menu to select the option to save an image.)
Online HTML to Markdown Converter Via URL
The website Heck Yes Markdown - www.heckyesmarkdown.com uses a PHP HTML to Markdown converter called Markdownify. It will attempt to convert the relevant text at a given URL into Markdown.
Again the Markdown can be copied ready for pasting into your documents and any media files downloaded.
Convert HTML to Markdown Online Via a File Upload
The online Markdown editor Markable.in supports uploading HTML files. Once uploaded the Markdown is available for further editing and the HTML is shown alongside.
Edit the HTML to Convert it to Markdown
You can of course simply edit the HTML to convert it to Markdown. Any text editor will do, e.g. Notepad in Windows or Notepad++. Use the editors search and replace functionality to speed up the manual conversion process. If the text editor supports regular expression search and replace some creative thinking can be used.
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Additional Resources
Powershell Convert Md To Html
- Html2text is a Python script that will convert HTML files to Markdown text files.
- Pandoc is a universal document converter available for most platforms and supports conversion of multiple file types, including HTML to Markdown and Markdown to other formats.
- Writage is a Microsoft Word plug-in that uses Pandoc to save to a Markdown format text file.
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