Decode HTML Entities Online

Paste content containing HTML entities and recover the original characters. Handles named entities like & and numeric ones like '. Runs entirely in your browser.

HTML Entity Encoder

LOCAL · Browser-Only

Encode or decode HTML entities to prevent XSS and display issues

Characters

Entity format

HTML to encode0 chars

Result

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Quick Start

1Choose Decode mode
2Paste text containing HTML entities
3Click Decode to unescape it back to plain text
4Copy the readable output

What This Tool Does

Decoding hands the text to the browser's own entity resolution, which means the full set is understood rather than a short table. Named entities, decimal references and hexadecimal references all come back as the characters they stand for.

That matters when you are cleaning up text that has been escaped more than once, or that came out of a system using entities you have never seen before. Anything the browser knows how to render is resolved here.

The same page encodes as well. Use as input moves the result back into the input box and flips the mode, so you can check a round trip in two clicks.

Limits Worth Knowing

Decoding has no options. The browser resolves whatever it recognizes and leaves anything it does not alone.
Encoding is the direction with settings: which characters to escape, and whether to write named, decimal or hexadecimal references.
Text only. There is no file upload and no download; copy the result out.
A reference table of twenty common entities sits at the bottom of the page for the ones people keep looking up.
Your input is kept locally between visits.

Common Questions

Does it handle numeric entities?

Yes, both decimal and hexadecimal, alongside named ones. All three forms are resolved in the same pass.

My text is double escaped. What now?

Decode it twice. Use the button that moves the result back into the input, then run the decode again.

Can I encode as well as decode?

Yes. Switch to encode and choose whether to escape only the characters that break HTML or every non-ASCII character, and in which reference format.

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