Markdown to HTML

Render Markdown content into HTML output in the browser.

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Quick Tip

Paste or type your Markdown.

About This Tool

Why use Markdown to HTML?

Convert Markdown into HTML with marked, a CommonMark-compliant parser. Headings, bold and italic, links, images, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, code blocks, inline code and tables all convert to the elements you would expect, so the output drops straight into a template or a CMS.

Markdown is what most people now write documentation, READMEs and posts in, and HTML is what publishing systems want. Being CommonMark-compliant matters here: it is the specification that settled the ambiguities older Markdown parsers each resolved differently, so the same document produces the same output wherever it is processed rather than depending on which implementation happened to run.

Key Benefits

CommonMark compliant

Follows the specification rather than one parser's habits, so your document renders the same way everywhere.

Tables and code blocks

Fenced code blocks, inline code and pipe tables are all supported, not just the basics.

Clean semantic markup

You get h1 through h6, p, ul, ol, blockquote and pre elements with no wrapper divs or inline styles to strip out.

How to use Markdown to HTML

1
Paste or type your Markdown.
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Convert; the document is parsed to the CommonMark specification.
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Check the HTML, particularly lists and code blocks.
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Copy the markup into your CMS, template or static site.

Best use cases

Publish a Markdown post through a CMS that takes HTML.

Turn a README into a web page.

Convert documentation written in Markdown for a site build.

Prepare a written draft as markup for an email template.

Markdown to HTML FAQs

Which Markdown features are supported?

Headings, bold and italic, links, images, ordered and unordered lists, blockquotes, fenced code blocks, inline code and pipe tables — the full CommonMark set.

Is inline HTML in my Markdown kept?

Yes. Markdown allows raw HTML, so any tags you have written by hand pass through into the output. Only paste Markdown you trust into a page you publish.

Does the output include CSS?

No. You get semantic elements with no styling attached, so your own stylesheet decides how they look.

Can I convert the HTML back to Markdown?

Yes, with the HTML to Markdown tool. The round trip is close but not always character-identical, since several Markdown spellings produce the same HTML.