Rich Text / HTML → Markdown

Paste formatted text copied from a webpage, Word document, or email, or paste raw HTML directly, and get clean Markdown out — stripping the bloated inline styles and formatting cruft that usually comes along with a copy-paste.

Pasting formatted content directly into a Markdown-based editor or CMS often drags along messy inline styles, redundant span tags, and formatting artifacts that don’t translate cleanly, leaving you to manually clean up the result. This tool handles that conversion directly, extracting just the meaningful structure — headings, bold/italic, links, lists — into proper Markdown syntax.

Paste rich text directly (most browsers preserve the formatting when pasting into a rich-text-aware field) or paste raw HTML source if that’s what you’re starting from. The converter strips inline styles and non-semantic wrapper tags while preserving genuine structural formatting — headings stay headings, bold stays bold, links keep their href. Preview the resulting Markdown alongside a rendered view before copying, to confirm nothing important was lost in translation.

Frequently asked questions

Will this preserve images and links from the original content? 

Yes, images convert to Markdown’s image syntax with the original source URL preserved, and links keep their href as a proper Markdown link — though note that image files themselves aren’t downloaded or embedded, only referenced by their original URL.

What happens to complex formatting Markdown doesn’t support well, like colored text or custom fonts? 

Markdown has no native syntax for these, so they’re dropped during conversion rather than approximated — this is intentional, since Markdown’s whole design premise is structural, portable formatting rather than precise visual styling.

Does it handle tables from a pasted webpage or Word document? 

Yes, HTML tables convert into Markdown’s pipe-table syntax, matching the same output format as the dedicated Markdown table generator.

I need to go the other direction — Markdown into HTML. 

The Markdown editor & viewer handles exactly that, rendering Markdown live and exporting the resulting HTML.