HTML Entity Encoder / Decoder
Escape special characters into HTML entities, or decode them back to text.
Every conversion runs locally in your browser. Nothing you type here is sent to a server.
Result
<div class="card">Tom & Jerry's "café"</div>
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Named vs. numeric entities
HTML entities exist to safely represent characters that would otherwise be interpreted as markup — < and & especially, since a raw < in text content risks being parsed as the start of a tag. Named entities like & are easier to read, while numeric entities like é (decimal) or ☃ (hex) can represent any Unicode code point, named or not — this decoder handles both forms.
Frequently asked questions
Why do I need to escape characters like < and & in HTML?
Because those characters have special meaning in HTML syntax — an unescaped < can be interpreted as the start of a tag — so displaying them literally as text requires encoding them as entities like < and & to avoid breaking the markup or creating an injection risk.