HTML Entity Encode / Decode
Encode special characters as HTML entities or decode HTML entities back to text.
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How to Use
Enter text with special characters (or HTML entities to decode), select mode, and the result updates in real-time.
Frequently Asked Questions
HTML entities are special codes used to display reserved HTML characters. For example, < becomes < and & becomes &. They prevent browsers from interpreting text as HTML.
Encoding prevents XSS attacks and ensures that characters like <, >, and & display as text rather than being interpreted as HTML tags or entities.
The most commonly encoded characters are: & (&), < (<), > (>), " ("), and ' (').