Free HTML Encoder / Decoder
Convert special characters to their HTML entity equivalents and decode HTML entities back to plain text. Prevent XSS and display issues in your web pages.
Keep Your HTML Safe
When displaying user-generated content on a web page, encoding HTML entities is essential to prevent broken layouts and XSS vulnerabilities. Paste your text here to encode it, or decode entities to see the original content.
Frequently Asked Questions
Encoding prevents browsers from interpreting special characters as HTML markup. This avoids rendering issues and helps protect against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Common characters include angle brackets, ampersands, double quotes, and single quotes. The tool can also encode all non-ASCII characters.
Yes. Paste encoded text and the tool converts entities back to their original characters.