Markdown to HTML

Markdown is a lightweight plain-text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004 that converts to HTML. Its readability as plain text and ease of writing made it the default format for GitHub READMEs, developer documentation, static site generators (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby), and content management systems. CommonMark is the standardized specification used by most modern Markdown parsers. Converting Markdown to HTML is essential when displaying user-submitted Markdown content in a web page, migrating documentation to a CMS, or generating static HTML from a Markdown-based content source.