HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder

🔤 HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder: Free Online Tool for Working with HTML Entities

HTML entities are special codes used to display characters in HTML that have special meaning or cannot be directly inserted into HTML code.

🔒 Main Advantage: Security and Convenience

• 100% Privacy: Your data is processed entirely in your browser. No data is sent to any server.
• Instant Results: Get ready-to-use code immediately after processing.
• All Entities Support: Work with all standard HTML entities and numeric codes.

✨ Key Features

• Encoding: Convert special characters to HTML entities
• Decoding: Convert HTML entities back to characters
• All Formats Support: Named entities (&lt;) and numeric codes (<)
• Security: Protection against XSS attacks through proper escaping

📋 How to Use

1. Enter text: Paste text or HTML entities into the text field
2. Select mode: Encoding (text → entities) or decoding (entities → text)
3. Process: Click the corresponding button
4. Copy: Copy the result to clipboard

💡 Use Cases

• XSS Protection: Escaping user input before display
• Special Characters: Using entities for characters with special meaning in HTML
• Data Processing: Decoding HTML entities from received data
• Web Development: Proper HTML content formatting

🔧 Technical Details

• Named entities: &lt; (less than), &gt; (greater than), &amp; (ampersand), &quot; (quotes), &apos; (apostrophe)
• Numeric codes: Decimal (<) and hexadecimal (<) codes
• Unicode support: Work with any Unicode characters

📝 Entity Examples

• < → < (less than)
• > → > (greater than)
• & → & (ampersand)
• " → " (double quotes)
• ' → ' (single quote)
•   → non-breaking space