Why are script and style contents removed?

Because there is no Markdown for them, so the only alternative is to dump the JavaScript or CSS into the document as prose. That's noise at best, and pasting a script into a Markdown file that later gets rendered with raw HTML enabled is a genuine hazard.

Is this good enough to migrate a whole site?

For article-shaped content, usually yes — that's the case it handles well. For pages built out of nested layout components it will give you the text and lose the arrangement. Convert a handful of representative pages first and look at the output before running it over hundreds.

Does it convert tables?

Not yet — table markup passes through as its text content. Markdown's table syntax can't represent merged cells or block content inside a cell, so a partial conversion would quietly mangle exactly the tables that are hardest to rebuild. Converting the other direction, Markdown to HTML, does handle tables.

HTML to Markdown Converter

Turn HTML back into Markdown you can actually edit. Useful when you're migrating a site off a CMS, pulling a page into a docs repo, or rescuing content from an export that only offers HTML. Headings, lists, links, images, emphasis, blockquotes and code blocks all convert; script and style contents are dropped, because there is no Markdown for them and carrying them through would be worse than useless.

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Result

Nothing is uploaded — this tool runs inside your browser, so your files never leave your device.

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Why use this tool

Headings, lists, links, images, emphasis, quotes and code blocks
Script and style contents are dropped rather than transcribed
HTML entities are decoded, so &amp; comes back as &
Runs in your browser — paste a whole page if you like

How it works

1Paste the HTML — view-source, an export, or a fragment.
2Copy the Markdown out.
3Check anything that was in a table or a layout div; see below.

HTML to Markdown Converter — frequently asked questions

Anything Markdown can't express. Layout divs and their classes, inline styles, merged table cells, iframes and forms all lose their structure — the text inside survives, but the arrangement doesn't. That's a limitation of Markdown, not of the tool: it's a much smaller format than HTML by design.

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