Markdown to HTML

Markdown in one minute

Markdown is plain text with light punctuation for formatting: # for headings, *italic* and **bold**, - for lists, [text](url) for links, backticks for code. It is the writing format of GitHub, GitLab, Reddit, Notion exports, static-site generators and countless CMSs. Sooner or later you need the HTML: to paste into a template, an email builder or a field that only accepts HTML.

This converter follows CommonMark, the standard specification, plus the GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions people expect: tables with |, ~~strikethrough~~, task lists - [x] and automatic links.

Worked example

## Release notes
- **New:** dark mode
- ~~Old export~~ removed

becomes <h2>Release notes</h2> followed by a <ul> with two <li> items, the first containing <strong>New:</strong> and the second <del>Old export</del>.

Line breaks

In standard Markdown a single line break inside a paragraph is just a space. Turn on line breaks to get <br> for each newline, as in GitHub comments and chat apps.

The page parses your Markdown with the marked library configured for CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, then outputs the generated HTML as source code you can copy. Raw HTML inside the Markdown is passed through as both specifications allow, so the output is not sanitised: if the Markdown comes from someone else, clean it with an HTML sanitiser before publishing. The line-break option switches single newlines from spaces to <br>. Everything runs in this tab.