DOCX to HTML Converter

Convert .docx (Microsoft Word) documents directly to HTML in the browser.
Built on top of JSZip and fast-xml-parser, bundled as a standalone library or installable via npm.

Features

• 📄 Parse DOCX files in the browser (no server required).
• 🖋️ Preserves styles: paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, inline formatting.
• 🎨 Extracts page size and margins as CSS @page rules (optional).
• 🖼️ Supports embedded images.
• 🔗 Handles hyperlinks (internal and external).
• 🔧 Available as:
  • ESM/CJS package (for bundlers and Node.js).
  • IIFE build (global window.DocxToHtmlConverter for CDN usage).

Installation

Via npm

npm install docx-to-html-converter

import { DocxToHtmlConverter } from "docx-to-html-converter";

// arrayBuffer from a File, fetch(), etc.
const buffer = await file.arrayBuffer();

const converter = await DocxToHtmlConverter.create(buffer);
const { html, pageStylesCss } = await converter.convert({
  extractPageStyles: true,
});

document.body.innerHTML = html;

Via CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/docx-to-html-converter/dist/index.iife.js"></script>
<script>
  async function demo(file) {
    const buf = await file.arrayBuffer();
    const conv = await window.DocxToHtmlConverter.create(buf);
    const { html } = await conv.convert();
    document.querySelector("#preview").innerHTML = html;
  }
</script>

Demo

Clone the repository and open index.html in a browser.
You can drag & drop a .docx file and preview the converted HTML side by side.

API

DocxToHtmlConverter.create(arrayBuffer, ParserClass?)

Create a new converter from a DOCX ArrayBuffer.
Optionally pass a custom XML parser class (defaults to fast-xml-parser).

converter.convert(options)

Convert the document to HTML.

• options.extractPageStyles (boolean, default: true)
  Extracts @page CSS with margins and page size.

Returns an object:

{
  html: string;          // HTML content
  pageStyles?: object;   // Page style object
  pageStylesCss?: string // CSS string with @page
}

Development

Build outputs:

• dist/index.js → ESM
• dist/index.cjs → CommonJS
• dist/index.iife.js → Standalone browser build (global)

# build all targets
npm run build

# clean dist/
npm run clean

License

MIT © 2025 Your Name