HTML entities
Escape HTML special characters or decode named and numeric entities into text. Copy the transformed string for your document.
Features
- Encode ampersands, angle brackets and quotation marks.
- Decode named and numeric HTML entities.
- Keep the result as text for copying or downloading.
How to use this tool
- Paste text or HTML entities.
- Choose Encode or Decode and process the input.
- Copy the converted text into the appropriate context.
Good to know
This tool is free without sign-up, with unlimited processing and exports within the displayed input limits.
- Entity encoding is not a general HTML sanitizer. Decoding can restore active markup if you later insert the result as HTML.
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