HTML to Markdown Converter

Reverse compile complex HTML tags back into clean, readable Markdown syntax for Readme files.

Input HTML

Output Markdown

Why convert HTML back to Markdown?

Often, content is originally authored on platforms like WordPress or Shopify using WYSIWYG rich-text editors that generate bloated HTML syntax under the hood. If a developer needs to migrate this content to a GitHub README.md repository or a modern headless CMS (like Strapi), preserving the content without the HTML bloat is incredibly difficult.

A Reverse DOM Parser

Instead of manually rewriting paragraphs, our JavaScript utility injects your HTML string into a sandboxed Document Object Model (DOM). It then traverses the tree node by node, converting anchor tags <a href="url"> into [text](url) notation, lists into asterisks, and bold tags into double-asterisks.

Note: HTML supports complex attributes like style="", class="", or <iframe> embeds that do not have a standard Markdown equivalent. During conversion, non-standard visual elements are intentionally stripped to guarantee clean syntax output.

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