HTML Entities Encoder/Decoder

Encode special characters into HTML entities (e.g. <code><</code>, <code>></code>, <code>&</code>) or decode entities back to readable text. Useful for sanitizing strings for display in HTML and debugging encoded content.

HTML Entities Encoder and Decoder Online Tool

HTML entities (like <, >, & and numeric entities such as ©) are used to represent characters that have special meaning in HTML or are outside the ASCII range. Our free online tool helps you encode special characters to HTML entities to safely display text in web pages, or decode entities back to their original form for editing and processing.

Why use HTML entity encoding?

⚠️ Prevent broken markup when user input contains HTML tags
🔒 Reduce XSS risks when displaying arbitrary text (useful as one step in output escaping)
🌍 Display non-ASCII characters reliably in legacy contexts using numeric entities
🔍 Debug encoded content coming from APIs, DB dumps, or pasted HTML

Common use cases

Escape user-provided text before inserting into HTML templates
Transform HTML-encoded content back to readable text for editing

HTML Entities Encoder/Decoder

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HTML Entities Encoder and Decoder Online Tool

Why use HTML entity encoding?

Common use cases