HTML to BBCode Converter – Convert Both Ways
About the HTML & BBCode Converter
The HTML & BBCode Converter works in both directions: turn HTML into forum-ready BBCode, or convert BBCode back into HTML, handling headers, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, images, lists, blockquotes, and code blocks. Type or paste your content and watch the conversion update live as you type.
It’s built for forum moderators and web developers moving content between HTML-based CMS platforms and BBCode-based forums like phpBB or vBulletin. Once you’ve converted your content, the Markdown to BBCode Converter is useful if your source content starts as Markdown instead of HTML, and the HTML Beautifier can clean up the HTML output for readability.
The BigToolSite Team tested both conversion directions with nested tags, lists, links, and images to confirm the syntax translates correctly and unsupported tags are safely stripped rather than breaking the output.
How to Use the HTML & BBCode Converter
- Choose a mode: HTML to BBCode or BBCode to HTML.
- Paste or type your content into the input box on the left.
- Watch the converted result appear instantly in the output box on the right.
- Use Copy Result to copy the output, or Download to save it as a file.
- Click Clear to reset both boxes and start fresh.
Example Usage
Input (HTML to BBCode): <p><strong>Bold</strong> and <a href="https://example.com">a link</a></p>
Output: [b]Bold[/b] and [url=https://example.com]a link[/url]
Input (BBCode to HTML): [h1]Title[/h1] [i]Italic text[/i]
Output: <h1>Title</h1> <em>Italic text</em>
Frequently Asked Questions
It handles headers (h1-h6), bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, images, lists, blockquotes, and code blocks in both directions, converting each to its BBCode or HTML equivalent.
Unsupported tags are stripped from the output while their inner text content is preserved, so you won’t lose any actual text, just tags without a BBCode equivalent.
Basic unordered and ordered lists convert cleanly, but complex nested tables don’t have a direct BBCode equivalent on most forums and may need manual formatting after conversion.
Yes, href attributes on links and src attributes on images are extracted and mapped directly into the corresponding [url] and [img] BBCode tags.
Yes, it’s completely free with no signup required.
