HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder
Quickly encode special characters to HTML entities or decode entities back to readable text. Perfect for web development, escaping user input, and working with HTML content.
Why use this tool?
HTML entities are essential for displaying special characters in web pages. This tool provides a quick way to convert between plain text and HTML-encoded content without manual lookup tables.
- Bidirectional — encode text to entities or decode entities back to text.
- Comprehensive — supports all common named and numeric entities.
- Instant — results appear immediately with no page reloads.
- Private — all processing happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
- Error detection — identifies malformed or invalid entities.
How to use
- Type or paste your text into the input field.
- Click Encode to convert special characters to HTML entities, or Decode to convert entities back to characters.
- The result appears in the output field below.
- Click Copy Result to copy it to your clipboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
HTML entities represent special characters that would otherwise be interpreted as HTML code. They're used to display reserved characters like <, >, &, quotes, and symbols in web pages safely.
Named entities use descriptive names like or ©, while numeric entities use decimal ( ) or hexadecimal ( ) codes. Both achieve the same result but named entities are more readable.
Yes. The tool handles Unicode characters properly, encoding them to appropriate entities when needed and decoding numeric entities to their Unicode equivalents.
Yes. All encoding and decoding happens entirely in your browser. Your text is never sent to a server or stored anywhere.