HTML to BBCode Converter
Convert HTML to BBCode, live as you type.
Converts the common formatting tags forums actually use — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, images, lists, quotes, and code blocks. Anything else is stripped, leaving its text in place. Converts live as you type, entirely in your browser.
What is HTML to BBCode Converter?
Converts common HTML formatting tags — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, images, lists, quotes, and code blocks — to their BBCode forum-markup equivalent. Not a full HTML parser: unrecognized tags are stripped, leaving their text content in place, rather than failing outright on markup this tool doesn't specifically handle. This is useful when reposting formatted content — a blog excerpt, a changelog, documentation — to a forum, wiki, or any platform that only accepts BBCode instead of HTML. Conversion happens live as you type, entirely in your browser; nothing you paste is sent to a server.
FAQ
The formatting tags forums actually use: <strong>/<b>, <em>/<i>, <u>, <s>, <a>, <img>, <ul>/<ol>/<li>, <blockquote>, and <pre>/<code>. Anything else is stripped, keeping its text.
They're stripped from the output, but the text inside them is kept — so you don't lose content, just the wrapping tag's formatting.
Yes — <ul>/<ol> with nested <li> items convert to BBCode's [list] syntax, and <a href> links convert to [url=...] tags with the link text preserved.