HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

Encode special characters into HTML entities or decode entities back into plain text.

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Real-time client-side conversion. Characters encoded safely.

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HTML Entity Encoding

HTML entities are used to display reserved characters like <, >, and & as text inside HTML documents without being interpreted as browser markup.

Supported Entity Formats

  • Named: Standard human-readable entities (e.g. &lt;, &gt;, &amp;, &copy;).
  • Decimal: Unicode numeric codes (e.g. &#60;, &#62;).
  • Hexadecimal: Base-16 Unicode codes (e.g. &#x3C;, &#x3E;).