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HTML Encoder/Decoder

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Encode and decode HTML entities. Convert special characters to HTML entities and back.

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HTML Encoder / Decoder

Encode or decode HTML entities in text.

A literal less-than sign or an ampersand dropped directly into HTML content doesn't stay literal text, it gets read as the start of a tag or an entity reference instead, which is exactly why displaying a code snippet or a comparison symbol inside a webpage safely requires escaping it as an HTML entity first rather than typing the character directly. This tool encodes special characters into HTML entities and decodes them back into readable text, moving in either direction between the raw character and its safe entity representation.

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Useful for safely displaying a literal angle bracket or an ampersand inside a webpage without it breaking the surrounding markup, decoding HTML entities found in a scraped page's source back into plain readable text, or preparing a code snippet to be embedded in HTML without its symbols being misread as actual tags.

Key features

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

Quick answers for HTML Encoder/Decoder

How is this different from a plain find-and-replace?
Encoding always converts the same five reserved characters, ampersand, less-than, greater-than, double quote, and single quote, to their named entities in one pass, so you do not need to remember or type out entity codes yourself.
Where does the output appear?
A separate read-only Output field below the input shows the converted text, kept apart from what you typed so you can compare both side by side.
Can I paste HTML markup and get it back exactly?
Encoding a full HTML snippet escapes the angle brackets and quotes so the tags display as visible text instead of being rendered, useful for showing HTML code inside another HTML page.