HTML Entities Encoder/Decoder
Convert text to named, numeric, or hexadecimal HTML entities — or decode them back.
About HTML Entities
Convert HTML entities
The HTML Entities Encoder/Decoder is a powerful utility designed for developers, content editors, and security-focused teams who need precise control over encoding and decoding HTML entities. Supporting named, numeric, and hexadecimal entity formats, the tool ensures accurate representation of special characters, Unicode symbols, HTML-sensitive characters, and multilingual text. With advanced features such as selective encoding, skip-encoded protection, smart quote handling, full ASCII+Unicode coverage, and a fast decoding engine with browser-grade fallback, this tool prevents HTML injection issues, broken markup, rendering errors, and data loss caused by incorrectly processed entities. Whether you're sanitizing user-generated content, preparing text for CMS systems, working with APIs, or debugging corrupted HTML, this tool delivers reliable, standards-compliant, and high-fidelity text transformation.
Primary Use Cases
- •Sanitizing user-generated content before inserting it into HTML pages or CMS editors.
- •Converting special characters, emojis, and multilingual text into safe HTML entities for reliable rendering.
- •Decoding and repairing broken or inconsistently encoded text received from APIs or databases.
- •Cleaning or normalizing legacy content exported from CMS systems, emails, XML files, or old blogs.
- •Preventing HTML injection and XSS exploits by safely encoding characters that could break markup.
How to Use
- 1.Enter text or HTML into the input box to automatically encode or decode entities based on your selected mode.
- 2.Select Encode if you want to convert characters like <, >, &, quotes, or Unicode symbols into HTML-safe entities.
- 3.Choose Decode to convert HTML entities back into readable characters such as < to < or € to €.
- 4.Pick between Named, Numeric, or Hex encoding modes depending on whether you want entity names, decimal codes, or hexadecimal codes.
- 5.Turn on Encode All to convert every character—including emojis, symbols, and multilingual text—into entities.
- 6.Enable Encode Quotes to control how single and double quotes are encoded for HTML and JavaScript contexts.
- 7.Use Skip Encoded to prevent double-encoding already existing entities in your input.
- 8.View the output preview instantly and click Copy or Download to export your results.
- 9.Use Reset to clear all fields and restore default encoding preferences.
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