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Markdown to HTML Converter

Turn Markdown into clean, safe HTML instantly.

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Frequently asked questions

Which Markdown flavour is supported?

The common core — headings, bold and italic, lists, links, images, code blocks, blockquotes and tables. Platform-specific extensions such as GitHub task lists or footnotes may not render, since there is no single Markdown standard.

Can I paste the HTML straight into my site?

Yes. The output is plain semantic HTML with no wrapper classes or inline styles, so your own CSS controls the appearance entirely.

Is raw HTML inside my Markdown preserved?

Markdown allows inline HTML and it passes through. Treat that with care if the source came from someone else — pasting unreviewed HTML into a page is how script injection happens.

Pro tips

  • Leave a blank line before and after lists, headings and code fences. Most 'Markdown is broken' reports are a missing blank line.
  • Use fenced code blocks with a language tag rather than four-space indentation — fences are unambiguous and survive being nested inside list items.
  • Escape a literal asterisk or underscore with a backslash when writing about syntax, or the text turns into emphasis you did not ask for.
  • Copy the rendered HTML when a CMS accepts HTML but not Markdown; it saves reformatting the whole document by hand.
  • Remember that raw HTML inside Markdown is passed through by many renderers but stripped by others, so avoid relying on it for anything load-bearing.

About Markdown Previewer

Rendered output sits beside the source, so the effect of a change shows immediately across headings, emphasis, code, lists, links and blockquotes. The generated HTML is copyable, which helps when a CMS accepts HTML but not Markdown.

Write Markdown and watch it convert to clean, safe HTML live, then copy the result for your site or CMS. The conversion runs in your browser and your input is escaped for safety.

Write Markdown on one side and watch it render to clean HTML on the other, instantly. It supports the everyday syntax you actually use — headings, bold and italic, inline code and fenced code blocks, ordered and unordered lists, links and blockquotes — so you can draft README files, documentation, comments and posts with confidence.

You can copy the rendered HTML to paste elsewhere. The renderer escapes input before formatting and restricts links to safe schemes, so pasting Markdown from a source you do not trust cannot execute anything.

Markdown is not one specification, and most of the surprises come from that. The original 2004 syntax left several cases undefined, CommonMark pinned them down, and GitHub Flavored Markdown added tables, strikethrough, task lists and automatic links on top. A document that renders correctly in one place can therefore render differently in another, which is why previewing against the target platform matters more than memorising rules.

The constructs that break most often are the ones sensitive to blank lines and indentation: a list that needs a blank line before it to start at all, a nested item that needs consistent indentation, and a fenced code block whose closing fence must match its opening one. When output looks wrong, whitespace is the first thing to check rather than the syntax itself.

Common use cases

  • Converting a README into HTML for a docs page
  • Turning Markdown notes into content a CMS will accept
  • Previewing how formatting will render before publishing
How it comparesEditors such as Typora and Obsidian are better homes for a large document set, and both want an install. Dillinger and StackEdit are closer in spirit; the difference here is that no document is stored or synced anywhere, so a draft that should not leave your machine does not.