AsciiDoc → HTML (basic)

Converting AsciiDoc to HTML is what happens every time documentation is published — the official generator does it for the whole text with a theme around it. This page does the direct version: you paste a fragment and receive the matching HTML, with a preview alongside, installing nothing and generating no full page.

The elements covered are the ones appearing in nearly every document: the three heading levels, which become the matching heading elements; asterisk lists, which become unordered lists; the block delimited by four hyphens, which becomes a preformatted code block; and emphasis, which becomes the bold and italic elements. Everything coming from the text is escaped before entering the HTML, so a less-than sign or ampersand in the content neither breaks the output nor injects markup.

The natural use is reusing a piece of documentation somewhere else — pasting a section into a system that only accepts HTML, assembling an email fragment, filling a description field. To publish the whole document, with a table of contents, cross-references and numbering, the route remains the official generator, which handles what depends on the document as a whole.