HTML entities encoder/decoder

Escape special characters as HTML entities or decode entities back to text. Helps prevent broken markup and XSS.

Runs in your browser · nothing is sentEncoding

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About this tool

Encode &, <, >, quotes and apostrophes as entities, or decode named and numeric entities back to normal text.

🔒 Your input stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere.

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