---
title: "Markdown to HTML"
description: "Paste Markdown or drop a .md file and get clean HTML to copy or download. Tables, task lists and fenced code included. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded."
url: https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-html/
category: convert
---

# Markdown to HTML

Paste Markdown or drop a .md file and get clean HTML to copy or download. Tables, task lists and fenced code included. Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

**Use this tool:** [Markdown to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-html/)

## Programmatic access

- REST id `markdown-to-html`: POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/markdown-to-html/execute (reference: https://findutils.com/api/markdown-to-html/)
- MCP tool `markdown_to_html` on https://mcp.findutils.com (reference: https://findutils.com/mcp/markdown-to-html/)

## Why convert Markdown to HTML?

Markdown is what you write in; HTML is what most systems actually want. A CMS body field, an email template, a help-centre article, a plain static page — each of them takes HTML and none of them take Markdown. The usual answers are to install a converter on the command line for a job that takes seconds, or to paste the draft into whichever online converter comes up first. This page does the conversion in the tab and hands back both the markup and a preview of it, so you can check the result before you paste it anywhere.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does it support GitHub Flavored Markdown?

The parts of it people write by hand: pipe tables with alignment, task lists, strikethrough, fenced code blocks and bare URL autolinking. Footnotes, reference-style links and setext (underlined) headings are not supported and come through as ordinary text.

### What happens to raw HTML in my Markdown?

It is escaped and shown as text rather than passed through. That is deliberate: it means the only tags in the output are ones this converter produced, which is what makes the preview pane safe to render. If you need HTML carried through untouched, this tool is not the right one.

### Is my document uploaded anywhere?

No. The conversion runs in your browser, and a dropped file is read locally with the File API. You can confirm it in your browser's network tab — there is no request carrying your text.

### What is the difference between a fragment and a full document?

A fragment is just the converted content — headings, paragraphs, lists — with no wrapper, which is what you paste into a CMS field or an existing template. A full document adds a doctype, a head with the charset and viewport, and a title, so the file opens in a browser on its own.

### Does it highlight the code in fenced blocks?

No. It writes the language onto the element as class="language-js" and leaves the colouring to whatever highlighter your page already uses. The Code to Image tool is the one that produces coloured output.

### Why is a link I wrote coming out as #blocked-unsafe-url?

The destination used a scheme that is not allowed. Links and images may point at http, https, mailto or tel URLs, or at ordinary relative and anchor paths. Anything else — including javascript: and data: URLs — is replaced, because the output of this page ends up pasted into other people's pages.

### Can it convert HTML back into Markdown?

Not on this page. The HTML to Markdown tool does that, and the two together cover the round trip.

### How large a file can it handle?

Up to about 10 MB of text, which is far more than a README or an article. Very large documents convert more slowly because the work happens on your own machine.

### Can I call this from a script?

Yes. The same converter is published as a REST endpoint and as an MCP tool, and both run the exact code this page runs, so the output matches.

### Why did my single line breaks disappear?

A single newline inside a paragraph is a soft break in Markdown and renders as a space, the same as it does on GitHub. End the line with two spaces, or a backslash, to get a real line break.

## Related Tools

- [HTML to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/html-to-markdown/)
- [Markdown Previewer](https://findutils.com/developers/markdown-previewer/)
- [Markdown to Word](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-word/)
- [Markdown to PDF](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-pdf/)
- [DOCX to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/)
- [Markdown Table Generator](https://findutils.com/text/markdown-table-generator/)