Markdown Renderer
Markdown is pleasant to write but hard to judge while all you see is asterisks and hashes. This tool shows a preview beside your input: headings, bold and italic text, lists, links, code and quotes appear the way they are meant to. Useful when reviewing a README, checking markdown you received from an AI assistant, or verifying the indentation of a nested list before you publish. The preview is built from individual DOM elements and text content, never by injecting HTML into the page. Markdown permits plain HTML inline, and here that is shown as text rather than executed — a deliberate choice, so you can safely inspect markdown from an unknown source. Everything happens locally in your browser: your text never reaches our server. Use is free and unlimited, including commercially: no account, no licence, no limits.
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# Heading Plain text with **bold** and *italic*.- List item - Another item - Nested item[Link to the toolbox](https://westcube.nl/en/tools/)
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Which markdown features are supported?
The common building blocks of standard markdown: headings with hashes (# through ######), paragraphs, bold with double asterisks, italic with single asterisks, unordered and ordered lists including nesting, links, inline code with backticks, fenced code blocks with triple backticks, and blockquotes with a greater-than sign. Extensions that vary per platform — GitHub-style tables, task checkboxes, footnotes — are not part of standard markdown and are therefore not rendered separately here. They do remain in your text.
Why is HTML in my markdown not executed?
That is by design. The markdown specification allows raw HTML between your text, and many renderers happily execute it. For a tool where you paste markdown of arbitrary origin that is undesirable: a pasted fragment with a script or iframe tag would then run in your browser. This tool therefore builds the preview from individual elements and sets all text as text content rather than through HTML injection. As a result you see such a tag as text. If you do want HTML rendered, use the HTML Formatter or view the file in the environment where it will actually be published.
Why does my nested list look different from what I expected?
Nesting in markdown depends entirely on indentation, and renderers differ on it. The safest rule is: indent a sublevel by two spaces relative to the bullet above it, and use spaces, not tabs. One renderer counts a tab as four positions and another as eight, which makes the same file look different elsewhere. If you see a flat list where you expected nesting, indentation is almost always the cause.
Can I copy the formatted text somewhere?
You get the cleaned-up markdown back in the output field and can copy it into your README, your documentation or your content system. The preview is meant for checking, not for exporting as HTML — how the final formatting looks is decided by the platform you publish on, with its own stylesheet. If you want to convert markdown into something else, the reverse tool is worth a look: the HTML to Markdown converter in the same category.