🔣 HTML Entity Encoder / Decoder

Using HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

Show characters such as < and & as text on a web page instead of having the browser treat them as markup, or turn escaped entities back into readable characters.

How to use it

1. Type into Plain Text / HTML, or use the insert buttons to add characters such as ©, € or an em dash.
2. Click Encode → to replace <, >, &, double quotes and apostrophes with entity codes (an apostrophe becomes &#39;).
3. To reverse it, paste escaped text into the right-hand box and click ← Decode.
4. Copy the result into your template, blog editor or email source.

Worked example

Input and settings

Fish & Chips <£5> "today"

Expected result

Fish &amp; Chips &lt;£5&gt; &quot;today&quot;

Limits and common mistakes

• Only a set of common named entities decodes; less common names such as &eacute; stay as written, though numeric forms like &#8211; always work.
• Encoding is correct for text inside HTML elements, but it does not make content safe inside a <script> block, a URL or a CSS value.
• Decoded text can contain live tags; pasting it into a page as HTML will render them.
• Characters such as £ and € are left as-is, since modern UTF-8 pages display them without entities.

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