HTML entity encoder

Escape text so it is safe inside HTML, or turn HTML entities back into characters.

Runs in your browser

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About HTML entity encoder

HTML entity encoder escapes the characters that have a meaning in HTML, such as angle brackets, ampersands and quotes, so text shows up as written instead of being read as markup. It can also escape every non-ASCII character, and decodes named and numeric entities back into text.

Escape <, >, &, and quotes
Optionally escape all non-ASCII characters
Decode named, decimal and hex entities

How to use HTML entity encoder

1Paste text or HTML.
2Choose encode or decode, and whether to escape all non-ASCII characters.
3Copy the result.