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HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

Escape text for safe use in HTML (< > & " ') or decode HTML entities like &amp;, &copy; and &#169; back into readable characters.

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About this tool

Characters like < and & have special meaning in HTML, so showing them as text means writing them as entities (&lt; and &amp;). Encoding escapes the five characters that matter — & < > " and ' — which is what you need to paste a code sample into a web page or an attribute value safely.

Tick "Also encode non-ASCII" to turn every accented letter, symbol and emoji into a numeric entity (é → &#233;), useful for systems that mangle anything outside plain ASCII.

Decoding handles decimal (&#169;) and hexadecimal (&#xA9;) entities for every character, plus the common named ones (&nbsp;, &copy;, &mdash;, &hellip; and more). Unknown names are left exactly as typed.

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