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HTML Entities

Escape HTML markup or decode common named and numeric entities into plain text locally. Input is never rendered as HTML.

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About HTML Entities

Convert characters such as < and & into HTML entities, or turn supported entities back into readable text.

How to use it

  1. Choose Encode entities or Decode entities.
  2. Paste markup or entity-encoded text into the input.
  3. Run the tool, review the plain-text result, then copy or download it.

Good to know

  • Encoding covers the five common markup characters. Decoding supports numeric entities and a selection of common named entities, not the complete HTML5 entity list.
  • Unknown named entities remain unchanged. Decoding makes one pass and is not an HTML sanitizer; check how another application will use the result.

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