How to convert Markdown to HTML
Turn Markdown into clean, semantic HTML you can paste into a CMS, an email, or a web page — and understand what the output looks like and why it stays safe.
Markdown was invented as a shorthand for HTML, so this is the most natural conversion there is. The Markdown to HTML tool turns your text into clean, standards-compliant markup you can drop anywhere HTML is accepted.
What the output looks like
Each Markdown construct maps to its semantic HTML element:
# Title→<h1>Title</h1>**bold**→<strong>bold</strong>- item→<ul><li>item</li></ul>[text](url)→<a href="url">text</a>- A fenced code block →
<pre><code>…</code></pre>
"Semantic" is the key word: the output uses the meaning tags (<strong>, <em>, <blockquote>) rather than visual ones (<b>, styling spans). That's exactly what search engines and screen readers want, and it inherits whatever styles the destination page already has.
Where to paste it
- A CMS or blog that has an "HTML" or "source" view (WordPress, Ghost, many newsletter tools).
- An HTML email, where Markdown isn't supported but inline HTML is.
- A static site or docs page you're hand-editing.
- Anywhere you need to preview how the Markdown will actually render.
Inline fragment vs full page
The tool gives you the HTML fragment — the <h1>, <p>, and <ul> tags for your content, without <html>, <head>, or <body> wrappers. That's what you want 90% of the time, because you're pasting into an existing page. If you need a standalone file, wrap the fragment in a minimal HTML document yourself and add a <style> block.
The reverse trip
Already have messy HTML — copied from a web page or an old CMS — and want portable text instead? Use HTML to Markdown, which strips the styling and classes and hands back clean Markdown. The two tools are a round trip: author in Markdown, publish as HTML; salvage HTML, keep it as Markdown.
Paste, convert, and your text is ready for the web.