Turn a block of HTML into a live, read-only link in seconds. No hosting account, no git push, no server setup required.
Free for 7 days — no account required. Paid plans get permanent links and custom slugs.
An HTML link generator — the “html to link” tool people look for — takes raw HTML markup you already have and produces a URL that anyone can open in a browser to see the rendered page. That is different from building an <a> anchor tag — this tool turns HTML into a link by hosting the content itself and handing you a URL to it.
Paste your HTML into the editor, click Publish, and dochost stores the markup and returns a unique URL within a few seconds. The link stays live for seven days on the free tier, or permanently on a paid plan. No account is needed to publish; anyone who has the link can view the rendered page without logging in.
Paste your HTML into the editor on this page.
Click Publish — no account needed for a free 7-day link.
Copy the URL dochost returns and share it; recipients see the fully rendered page, and paid plans add permanent links and custom slugs.
Maya is a QA engineer on a front-end team. She notices that a three-column card grid collapses incorrectly when the viewport is between 768 px and 820 px wide — the middle column drops below the other two instead of staying in line. The bug is fully reproducible with about 90 lines of self-contained HTML and inline CSS: no external dependencies, no JavaScript, just markup and a <style> block.
Her options are to paste those 90 lines directly into the Jira ticket description (which Jira renders as plain text and other engineers have to mentally parse), attach a screenshot that loses the interactive context, or spin up a CodePen — which requires an account and a context switch.
Instead, Maya opens dochost, pastes the snippet, and hits Publish. Ten seconds later she has a URL like dochost.co/d/xk9q2. She drops that link into the Jira ticket under Steps to Reproduce. The developer assigned to the ticket clicks it, sees the exact broken layout at the exact viewport width Maya described, and can inspect the computed styles in their own DevTools without any copy-paste work. The bug is confirmed and fixed in the same sprint, and the link stays in the ticket as a record of what the original repro looked like.
Search that phrase and the first page is split down the middle. Half the results write an anchor tag for a URL you already have. The other half take HTML you already have and give you a URL. Those are opposite jobs, and landing on the wrong one wastes a few minutes before you work out why nothing fits. This page is the second kind — here is how to tell which one you came for.
You have markup — from an AI chat, an export, or your own editor — and nowhere to put it.
This is the page. Paste it into the editor above and publish; you get a URL that renders the markup the way a browser would, with inline styles and style blocks intact. Nothing is installed and no account is needed for a seven-day link.
You want the HTML that makes a word clickable in a document you are already writing.
Then you are on the wrong half of the results, and the honest answer is one line rather than a tool: <a href="https://example.com">visible text</a>. The href is where it goes, the text between the tags is what gets clicked, and adding target="_blank" rel="noopener" opens it in a new tab. That is the whole of it — the generators ranking for this phrase are wrapping that one line in a form. Pasting anything into the editor above will not produce it.
Worth knowing anyway: an anchor tag needs a URL to point at. If you do not have one yet because the thing you want to link to is a file on your machine, the other branches here are how you get one.
The HTML is saved as a file on your computer, not sitting in a text box.
Upload it rather than opening it and copying the source — the upload page keeps the file exactly as it is, which matters when it has a doctype, a head, and embedded assets that a partial copy-paste would strip.
Upload an HTML file insteadThe page needs to appear inside another site, not open on its own.
You still need the hosted URL first, so publish here — but the part you actually paste into the other site is an iframe tag wrapped around that URL, with the sizing and loading attributes set. The embed builder writes that tag and previews the result before you commit to it.
Build the embed codeIt generates a link to a hosted page, not an anchor tag. If you searched for something like build a hyperlink in HTML, you want a reference on writing <a href="...">text</a> markup — that is a different task. This tool takes HTML you already have, stores the rendered output, and returns a URL that any browser can open. You are not writing a link inside a document; you are getting a link to the document itself.
By default dochost generates a short random slug — something like dochost.co/d/xk9q2 — so you get a link immediately without picking a name. On a paid plan you can replace that random slug with a custom one, for example dochost.co/d/card-grid-bug. Free-tier links use the auto-generated slug only. Either way the slug is the only thing that identifies the page; keep the URL private if the content is sensitive.
Yes, with one practical caveat. dochost stores and serves the exact HTML you pasted, so inline styles and <style> blocks render identically for every visitor. If your snippet references external resources — a CDN stylesheet, a web font, an image URL — those load from their original servers when the visitor opens the link. If an external resource goes offline or changes, that part of the page will look different. Self-contained HTML with no external dependencies is the most reliable choice.
Both, and the update happens at the same URL. Publishing anonymously hands back an edit link alongside the public one — open it, change the HTML, and everyone who already has the public URL sees the new version, so a typo does not cost you the link you have already pasted into Slack. Signed-in pages are editable from the dashboard, which is also where you delete one; deleting stops serving the page immediately. Free links still expire after seven days on their own.
Generating the link is free — no account, no card, no trial countdown on the tool itself. What the free tier limits is time, not the page: a free link stays live for 7 days and you can extend it before it expires, also free. Nothing is stripped out of your page in the meantime. Your markup is served as written, no ad banner is injected, and the link works for as many people as open it. Paying buys permanence and control — the URL stops expiring, and you can choose your own slug, put a password on the page, or remove the dochost footer link. For anything with a natural shelf life — a demo, a review, a mockup — the free version is the whole product.
Los enlaces gratuitos duran 7 días con una cuenta gratuita. Con un plan de pago, cada página que publiques se queda online de forma permanente.
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