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HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder — Escape Characters for Web

Escape and unescape HTML special characters like <, >, &, and quotes.

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Processing Limits & Device Capabilities

Processed client-side in browser memory. Recommended maximum file size is 50 MB on desktop and 15 MB on mobile.

Zero Cloud Transmission: Zero bytes are uploaded to any server. File handling is constrained only by available device RAM.

How to Use HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

  1. Paste your code snippet or HTML text.
  2. Click
  3. to escape special characters or
  4. to restore them.
  5. Copy the escaped code ready for rendering in pre/code blocks.

About HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder

HTML Entity Encoder safely replaces characters that have special syntactic meaning in HTML (such as less-than and greater-than brackets) with their corresponding entity equivalents (&lt; and &gt;).

Frequently Asked Questions

Why should I escape HTML entities?

To display raw code in documentation without triggering HTML rendering or Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).

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