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HTML Encoder / Decoder

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Free online HTML entity encoder and decoder. Encode special characters as HTML entities for safe display, or decode entities back to readable text.

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Text that ends up in a page's visible body, a comment, a chat message, user-submitted content, needs its angle brackets and ampersands escaped before display, or a literal script tag typed by a visitor doesn't just show up as text, it risks actually running as a script the browser interprets, which is a different and more security-relevant concern than the same characters showing up inside an HTML attribute value. This tool encodes special characters into HTML entities for safe display in a page's visible content, or decodes entities back into readable text, handling exactly the characters that matter for content rendered directly into the body of a page.

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Useful for safely displaying user-submitted text that might contain angle brackets or ampersands, showing a code sample's raw HTML tags as visible text instead of having the browser render them, or decoding entity-encoded text back into something readable.

Key features

  • Clean interface
  • Fast processing
  • No signup required
  • Works offline

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Quick answers for HTML Encoder / Decoder

Which characters does the encoder convert?
The five characters with special meaning in HTML: ampersand, less-than, greater-than, double quote, and single quote, each turned into its named entity such as & or <.
Does decode handle entities beyond the basic five?
Yes, decoding runs the text through a hidden browser textarea so any valid named entity like © or ™, along with decimal and hexadecimal numeric references, resolves correctly, not just the five reserved characters.
What happens with text that has no special characters?
Encoding returns it unchanged since there is nothing to escape, and the same applies in reverse when decoding plain text.