HTML Entity Encoder
The HTML Entity Encoder helps you convert special characters into HTML entities and decode entities back into readable text. Work with characters such as ampersands, quotation marks, angle brackets, and other HTML-sensitive symbols when preparing or inspecting web content. This free online HTML entity tool is useful for developers, content editors, and anyone working with HTML text. Enter your content to encode or decode HTML entities.
Convert characters that have special meaning in HTML. Load the example to see the tool in action.
What is HTML Entity Encoder?
An HTML Entity Encoder converts special characters into HTML entities, while decoding changes supported entities back into readable characters. Use this free online HTML entity tool to handle symbols such as angle brackets, ampersands, and quotation marks when preparing HTML content, inspecting markup, or processing text for web pages.
Why use this tool?
- Represent reserved HTML characters safely in markup.
- Inspect how characters such as ampersands and angle brackets are represented.
- Understand the difference between HTML escaping and URL encoding.
How to use HTML Entity Encoder
- Step 1. Enter the text containing characters you want to inspect.
- Step 2. Encode or decode the value.
- Step 3. Use the result in an HTML context where the corresponding escaping rules apply.
Common use cases
Important notes
- HTML escaping is context-dependent; it is not a substitute for every kind of input sanitization.
- URL encoding and HTML entity encoding solve different problems.
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HTML Entity Encoder FAQ
What is an HTML entity?
It is a textual representation such as & or < used to represent a character in HTML.