HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

Escape text into HTML entities or decode entities back to plain text. Choose named or numeric entities, escape only the unsafe characters or everything outside ASCII, and read the result live.

Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you put in here gets uploaded.

Input

Output

Escape

Write as

Only the five HTML-reserved characters (& < > " ') are escaped. Characters with a named entity use it, everything else becomes a hex reference.

Common entities

The characters people look up most, with every spelling ready to copy.

Character	Named	Decimal	Hex	Description
Reserved characters
&				Ampersand
<				Less-than sign
>				Greater-than sign
"				Double quotation mark
'				Apostrophe, single quote
Spaces and dashes
				Non-breaking space
				En space
				Em space
				Thin space
				Soft hyphen
–				En dash
—				Em dash
Quotes and punctuation
‘				Left single quotation mark
’				Right single quotation mark
“				Left double quotation mark
”				Right double quotation mark
‚				Single low quotation mark
„				Double low quotation mark
«				Left angle quotation mark
»				Right angle quotation mark
…				Horizontal ellipsis
·				Middle dot
•				Bullet
†				Dagger
‡				Double dagger
§				Section sign
¶				Pilcrow, paragraph sign
‰				Per mille sign
′				Prime, minutes, feet
″				Double prime, seconds, inches
Currency
€				Euro sign
£				Pound sign
¥				Yen sign
¢				Cent sign
¤				Generic currency sign
Legal marks and units
©				Copyright sign
®				Registered trademark sign
™				Trademark sign
°				Degree sign
±				Plus-minus sign
µ				Micro sign
²				Superscript two
³				Superscript three
½				Fraction one half
¼				Fraction one quarter
¾				Fraction three quarters
Math
×				Multiplication sign
÷				Division sign
−				Minus sign
≠				Not equal to
≤				Less than or equal to
≥				Greater than or equal to
≈				Almost equal to
≡				Identical to
∞				Infinity
∑				N-ary summation
∏				N-ary product
√				Square root
∫				Integral
∂				Partial differential
∀				For all
∃				There exists
∈				Element of
∉				Not an element of
∅				Empty set
∩				Intersection
∪				Union
⊂				Subset of
⊃				Superset of
∧				Logical and
∨				Logical or
¬				Not sign
∇				Nabla, gradient
Arrows
←				Left arrow
↑				Up arrow
→				Right arrow
↓				Down arrow
↔				Left-right arrow
⇐				Left double arrow
⇒				Right double arrow
⇔				Left-right double arrow
↵				Carriage return arrow
Greek letters
α				Greek small letter alpha
β				Greek small letter beta
γ				Greek small letter gamma
δ				Greek small letter delta
ε				Greek small letter epsilon
η				Greek small letter eta
θ				Greek small letter theta
λ				Greek small letter lambda
μ				Greek small letter mu
π				Greek small letter pi
ρ				Greek small letter rho
σ				Greek small letter sigma
τ				Greek small letter tau
φ				Greek small letter phi
χ				Greek small letter chi
ψ				Greek small letter psi
ω				Greek small letter omega
Δ				Greek capital letter delta
Σ				Greek capital letter sigma
Ω				Greek capital letter omega
Π				Greek capital letter pi

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About the HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder Tool

This tool converts text to and from HTML character references. In encode mode it escapes the characters that would break your markup, in decode mode it turns references like &amp and &#8364 back into readable text, live as you type.

You choose how far the encoder goes and how the result is written. Escape only the five reserved characters, or everything outside printable ASCII too, and write the output as named entities, decimal references or hex references.

What you can do

Escape HTML special characters so text is safe to place inside markup.
Decode HTML entities back to plain text, covering named, decimal and hex references.
Convert accented letters, symbols and emoji into plain-ASCII entities.
Choose named entities, decimal or hex numeric references for the output.
Look up common entities in a searchable table and copy any of their spellings.

How to use the HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

1Pick Encode or Decode.
2Paste or type your text into the input pane. The result updates as you type.
3When encoding, choose which characters to escape and whether they are written as names, decimal or hex numbers.
4Copy or download the result, or press Swap with result to convert it back.

What gets escaped

The default scope escapes the five characters HTML reserves: the ampersand, both angle brackets and both quote characters. That is exactly what you need to show code or user input inside a page without it being parsed as markup.

The wider scope also converts every character outside printable ASCII, so accented letters, typographic quotes, dashes, symbols and emoji all become plain-ASCII references that survive any charset. Tabs and line breaks stay as they are. In named style, a character without a name in the WHATWG entity list falls back to a hex reference.

How decoding handles edge cases

Decoding covers the full WHATWG named entity list, 2231 names in all, plus decimal and hex numeric references with or without the closing semicolon. Emoji and other astral code points come out as real characters, and numeric references in the old windows-1252 range map to the characters authors meant, so &#150 becomes an en dash.

Anything that is not a valid reference is left untouched rather than mangled. A lone ampersand, a made-up name or a broken number stays exactly as it was, and a legacy name without its semicolon only decodes at a word boundary, so a URL like ?page=1&copy=2 keeps its query parameters.

Decoding is single-pass, so double-encoded text needs a second run. For percent-encoded URLs use the URL Encoder & Decoder instead.

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Convert

Common entities

Next steps

About the HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder Tool

What you can do

How to use the HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

What gets escaped

How decoding handles edge cases

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