The Best Free HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder
HTML uses special characters like <, >, &, and " as part of its syntax. If you want to display these characters as visible text on a web page (instead of the browser interpreting them as HTML tags), you need to “escape” or “encode” them into HTML entities. The GadgetsFocus free online HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder handles this conversion in both directions.
How to Use
- Paste Your Text: Enter the text containing special characters (like
<div>or&) into the left box. - Encode: Click “Encode →” to convert special characters into their HTML entity equivalents (e.g.,
<becomes<). - Decode: Click “← Decode” to convert HTML entities back to their original characters.
Why Encode HTML Entities?
- Display Code Snippets: If you want to show HTML code in a tutorial or blog post, you must encode the angle brackets so the browser shows them as text instead of rendering them.
- Prevent XSS Attacks: Encoding user-submitted data before displaying it on a page prevents malicious JavaScript injection (Cross-Site Scripting).
- Fix Encoding Issues: Decode garbled text that was double-encoded or improperly escaped.