HTML Entities Encoder & Decoder
Encode or decode HTML entities
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HTML Entities Encoder & Decoder
Encode or decode HTML entities
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About this tool
Escape special characters into HTML entities and decode them back, with a common entity reference.
The BrainCoder HTML Entities Encoder & Decoder converts special characters to their HTML entity equivalents and back. When writing HTML, certain characters like angle brackets, ampersands, and quotes have special meaning. To display these characters literally on a webpage, they must be encoded as entities — for example, < becomes < and & becomes &. This tool automates that process.
This is essential for anyone working with HTML, whether you're building a CMS, sanitizing user input, writing blog posts with code snippets, or debugging a web page that's rendering markup as plain text. The encoder handles both named entities (like ) and numeric entities (like ), and the decoder reverses both formats back to the original characters.
Everything happens in your browser — no HTML is sent to any server. This makes it safe to use with sensitive content, private data, or proprietary markup. The tool is free, requires no account, and works on any device.
Key features
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Encode to named HTML entities (< > & etc.)
Encode to numeric HTML entities (< < etc.)
Decode named and numeric entities back to characters
Handles all standard HTML special characters
Supports extended Unicode entities
Instant conversion with copy-to-clipboard
How to use HTML Entities Encoder & Decoder
Follow the steps below to use the tool.
- 1
Enter your text
Paste or type the text containing characters you need to encode or decode. This could be raw HTML, user-submitted content, or a string with special characters.
- 2
Choose Encode or Decode
Click 'Encode' to convert special characters to HTML entities, or 'Decode' to convert entities back to readable characters.
- 3
Select entity format
Choose between named entities (recommended for readability) or numeric entities (recommended for maximum compatibility).
- 4
Copy the result
Click the copy button to grab the encoded or decoded output and use it in your HTML, template, or code.
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