Developer Utility

HTML Entity Encoder Decoder

Escape raw text for safe HTML output or decode entities back into readable text without relying on external libraries.

This is useful for docs, templates, CMS fields, and debugging markup-heavy content.

Common entities

Characters like <, >, &, double quotes, and apostrophes often need escaping before rendering inside HTML.

Encode and decode entities

Encoding

Turns unsafe HTML characters into entity strings so the browser renders the text literally.

Decoding

Converts named and numeric entities back into readable characters for inspection or editing.

Typical use

Helpful when copying code snippets into CMS fields, docs, template literals, or static site content.

How it works

The encoder replaces characters that have special meaning in HTML with entity-safe equivalents. The decoder uses the browser’s own entity parser to turn those sequences back into text. That keeps the tool small, fast, and aligned with real browser output rules.