Markdown to HTML converter

Paste Markdown, get clean semantic HTML. GitHub-flavored tables, task lists and fenced code, no inline styles, no wrapper divs. Copy the markup or download a file.

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<h1 id="release-notes-v24">Release Notes v2.4</h1>
        <h2 id="highlights">Highlights</h2>
        <ul>
          <li><strong>Dark mode</strong> is now the default on macOS</li>
          <li>Import from <a href="https://notion.so">Notion</a> and Obsidian</li>
          <li><input type="checkbox" checked disabled> Export to Word</li>
          <li><input type="checkbox" disabled> Export to Google Docs</li>
        </ul>
        <h2 id="breaking-changes">Breaking changes</h2>
        <table>
          <thead><tr><th>Setting</th><th>Old</th><th>New</th></tr></thead>
          <tbody><tr><td><code>theme</code></td><td><code>light</code></td><td><code>auto</code></td></tr></tbody>
        </table>
        <pre><code class="language-js">const cfg = { theme: 'auto' };</code></pre>
        <blockquote><p>Upgrade with <code>npm i md2word@latest</code>.</p></blockquote>

Output Heading IDs

Converted in your browser. Your file never leaves your device.

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Paste Markdown

CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown are both understood, including nested lists and footnotes.

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Choose fragment or document

A body fragment to drop into your CMS, or a complete standalone page with a small stylesheet.

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Copy or download

Copy the markup to your clipboard or save an .html file. It is plain text, nothing is uploaded.

What "clean HTML" means here

Every Markdown processor produces HTML somewhere along the way, so the question is never whether a tool can do it, but what the output looks like when you open it. Editors that export HTML tend to wrap every paragraph in three divs, attach inline style attributes, and paste their own CSS classes onto everything. That HTML is impossible to style, bloated to send, and unfriendly to screen readers and search engines.

MDtoDOCX emits the smallest correct markup for each construct. A paragraph is a <p>. A heading is an <h2> with an id derived from its text so you can link to it. Emphasis is <em> and <strong>, never <i> and <b>. There are no wrapper divs, no inline styles and no classes except the one that identifies a code block's language.

GitHub-flavored Markdown, fully

Pipe tables become <table> with a proper <thead> and <tbody>, and column alignment from the delimiter row is written as style="text-align" on the cells, the one place inline style is unavoidable. Task lists become list items with a disabled checkbox. Strikethrough becomes <del>. Autolinks are turned into anchors. Footnotes produce a footnote section with back-references.

Code blocks you can highlight

Fenced code is emitted as <pre><code class="language-js">, the convention every highlighter from Prism to highlight.js expects. Content inside is HTML-escaped once, so angle brackets in your code do not become tags. Pro can pre-highlight the code with token spans and a scoped stylesheet, useful when you cannot run JavaScript on the destination page, such as an email or a locked-down CMS.

Heading IDs and anchors

Heading IDs are generated the same way GitHub does it: lowercase, spaces to hyphens, punctuation removed, duplicates suffixed with a number. Links like [see setup](#setup) keep working after conversion. You can turn IDs off if your CMS generates its own.

Fragment or full document

The default output is a body fragment, which is what you want when pasting into WordPress, Ghost, Notion's HTML import, or a documentation site. Switch to "Full document" for a standalone page with a <head>, a viewport meta tag and a compact stylesheet that sets sensible type, table borders and code shading. That file opens correctly in any browser and is a reasonable thing to email.

Security

Raw HTML inside your Markdown is passed through, as CommonMark requires, but the converter runs entirely in your browser and never posts the result anywhere, so there is no server to attack. If you plan to publish user-supplied Markdown, run the output through a sanitiser on your side.

MDtoDOCX vs Pandoc vs editor "Export as HTML"

What matters	MDtoDOCX	Pandoc	Typical editor export
Wrapper divs and inline styles	None	Minimal	Everywhere
GitHub task lists and tables	Yes	Yes	Often lost
Heading IDs	GitHub style	Pandoc style	Usually none
Code block language class	`language-*`	`sourceCode` classes	Varies
Standalone document option	Yes	Yes (`-s`)	Sometimes
Install anything	No	Yes	The editor
Privacy	Local	Local	Local

Frequently asked questions

Is the Markdown to HTML converter free?

Yes. Fragment and full-document output, GitHub-flavored tables, task lists, footnotes and code blocks are all free with no account. Pro adds pre-rendered syntax highlighting and MathML for LaTeX.

Does it add CSS classes or inline styles?

No, apart from a language-* class on code blocks and text-align on table cells that Markdown explicitly aligns. The output is meant to inherit your site's stylesheet.

Which Markdown flavour is supported?

CommonMark plus the GitHub extensions: tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks and footnotes. Front matter between --- fences is stripped, not rendered.

Can I paste the result into WordPress or Ghost?

Yes. Use the fragment output and paste into an HTML or Code block. Because there are no wrapper divs or inline styles, your theme's typography applies immediately.

How are heading IDs generated?

Lowercase, spaces become hyphens, punctuation is removed, and duplicates get a numeric suffix, matching GitHub so existing #anchor links keep working.

Is raw HTML in my Markdown kept?

Yes, as CommonMark specifies. Conversion happens in your browser so nothing is sent to us. Sanitise on your side before publishing untrusted input.

Can I get a standalone .html file?

Yes. Choose "Full document with CSS" and click Download. The file includes a small embedded stylesheet and opens in any browser.