Free HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder
Encode special characters into HTML entities or decode HTML entities back to their original characters. Prevent XSS vulnerabilities and display special characters correctly.
Protect Your Pages and Display Characters Correctly
HTML entity encoding is essential for web development. Whether you are embedding user-generated content, displaying code snippets, or working with special characters and symbols, proper encoding ensures your pages render correctly and stay secure against injection attacks.
Frequently Asked Questions
HTML entities ensure that special characters like <, >, &, and quotes display correctly in web pages and do not get interpreted as HTML markup. Encoding also helps prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by neutralizing injected code.
Yes. The tool works in both directions. Paste HTML-encoded text to decode it back to readable characters, or paste plain text to encode it into HTML entities.