📋 Plain Text to HTML List Converter

One line in, one list item out

The text is split on newlines, each line is trimmed of leading and trailing spaces, empty lines are discarded, and what remains is wrapped:

Buy groceries        <ul>
Walk the dog     ->    <li>Buy groceries</li>
                       <li>Walk the dog</li>
                     </ul>

Items are indented two spaces inside the list tags, which is the convention most formatters and linters expect. You get a rendered preview above the source so you can see the bullets before pasting, and the item count in the card header is the number of non-empty lines found.

What happens to your characters

• HTML is escaped, not passed through. The characters & < > " ' ` become entities, so a line reading Fish & chips is emitted as Fish & chips and renders correctly instead of breaking the markup.
• Switching to an ordered list changes the wrapper to <ol>. Browsers supply the numbering, so strip any "1." you typed yourself or the output reads "1. 1. Buy groceries".
• Indentation is not nesting. Indented lines are trimmed to the same level; to nest a list, paste a child <ul> inside the parent <li> by hand afterwards.
• Every item is a bare <li> with no classes or attributes, ready for your own CSS.

Frequently asked questions