HTML Entities Encoder & Decoder

Encode special characters to HTML entities or decode entities back to text.

HTML Entities

Processed locally · & < > " '

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When should I encode HTML entities?

Use entity encoding when inserting user text into HTML to prevent XSS and broken markup. Common replacements: &, <, >, ".

Decode uses a temporary DOM element’s textContent via DOMParser so entities become plain text without executing scripts.