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HTML Entity Encoder / Decoder

Convert special characters to their corresponding HTML entities and vice-versa.

Key Benefits

  • Prevent XSS attacks by escaping unsafe characters
  • Display code snippets correctly in HTML
  • Sanitize simple text inputs
  • Fast and client-side only

Target Audience

  • Web Developers
  • Content Managers
  • Security Enthusiasts

How It Helps

  • Safely display user-generated content
  • Fix broken HTML rendering issues
  • Decode messy URLs or scraped content
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HTML Entities & Web Safety

In HTML, certain characters are "reserved" because they have special meaning. For example, the less-than sign (`<`) is used to start tags, and the greater-than sign (`>`) ends them.

If you want the browser to actually verify these characters as text rather than interpreting them as code, you must replace them with HTML Entities.

Common Entities Table

CharacterEntity NameDescription
<&lt;Less Than
>&gt;Greater Than
&&amp;Ampersand
"&quot;Double Quote
'&apos;Single Quote
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about using this tool