Type or paste Markdown on the left, read the generated HTML on the right, and see the rendered preview underneath. The conversion is a set of string transformations running in the page — nothing is posted to a server and nothing is saved.
The awkward part of working in Markdown is that the markup is invisible until something renders it, so a missing blank line or a stray asterisk only shows up later. This page puts the source, the generated HTML and the rendered result on the same screen so the mistake is visible while you are still typing it.
The parser is a fixed list of transformations applied in order, and knowing the list is the difference between a clean conversion and a surprise.
Before any Markdown rule runs, ampersands, angle brackets and greater-than signs are replaced with their HTML entities. Every later transformation sees that escaped version. The practical effect is that HTML typed into the input box is displayed rather than executed: a script tag or a div disappears into visible text instead of becoming a live element. For anyone pasting a mixed document this is a safety property, not a bug. The same escaping applies to the preview pane, so the preview shows you what the output string actually does rather than what a browser would do with unescaped markup.
A common job: a release note written in Markdown that has to go into a CMS field which only accepts HTML. The document has a heading, a couple of bullet points, an inline code reference and a table of version numbers.
| Alternative | Notes |
|---|---|
| Block quotes | Not supported. A line beginning with a greater-than sign is escaped and then emitted as ordinary paragraph text, so quotations arrive visually unmarked. |
| Strikethrough | Not supported. Tildes are passed through unchanged rather than becoming a del element. |
| Nested lists | Not supported. The list state tracks whether a list is open, not how deep it is, so an indented sub-item becomes a sibling of its parent. |
| Reference-style links | Not supported. Links must be written inline as [text](url); a link defined elsewhere in the document will not resolve. |
| Footnotes, definition lists, task list checkboxes | Not supported. CommonMark extensions are outside the scope of this converter and are passed through as literal text. |
| Syntax highlighting | Code blocks keep their content but gain no colour and no language class. The fence language hint after the opening backticks is not read. |
You can, but it will appear as visible text rather than becoming markup. Angle brackets are escaped before any Markdown rule runs, so an opening tag is shown as characters on the page. That behaviour is intentional: it means a mixed document cannot accidentally inject working markup into whatever you paste the output into.
The separator row is missing or malformed. The converter decides a table has begun only when it finds a row made entirely of hyphens, colons and spaces between pipe characters. Without that row the lines are handled as ordinary paragraphs and the pipes are shown literally.
No. The conversion is a sequence of string replacements executed in the page, and there is no upload step, no account and no saved draft. Long documents and internal notes are common inputs here because the text never leaves the machine.
No, and it does not claim to. It covers the syntax that most CMS comment boxes and README files actually use — headings, emphasis, links, images, code, lists, rules and pipe tables. Anything outside that list is passed through as literal text, so the safe assumption is that unsupported syntax will be visible in the output rather than silently lost.
Last verified: October 3, 2026
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