HTML entity converter
Escape HTML special characters or decode HTML character references.
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How to use this tool
- Paste ordinary text or encoded HTML references.
- Encode protects ampersands, angle brackets and quotes.
- Decode returns plain text without rendering or executing markup.
Things to know
- Processing happens on your device. Check the result before replacing your original data.
- Each text input accepts up to 5 MiB. Output is limited to 25 MiB and combined text settings to 1 MiB.
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