GUIDE
HTML entities explained
Represent special characters as text without treating them as markup.
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Escape special characters
Use entities when text contains characters that otherwise look like markup. Encoding replaces ampersands, angle brackets and quotation marks.
<p>Hello & Quietkit</p> → <p>Hello & Quietkit</p>Read named and numeric entities
A named reference such as © represents ©. Decimal 😀 and hexadecimal 😀 represent the same emoji. Unknown references are preserved. References must end with a semicolon; invalid numeric references follow HTML replacement and control-character remapping rules.
Keep output as text
The decoder displays the result in a text field. It does not run scripts or render HTML. Decoding is not sanitizing: review content before using it in a webpage, and apply escaping appropriate to that destination.