Free HTML Entity Converter

What are HTML Entities?

HTML entities are specific sequences of characters used to represent reserved characters or invisible symbols in web pages. In HTML, characters like less-than (<), greater-than (>), and ampersand (&) have functional meaning as tag delimiters. If you need to print these characters as text on a web page, you must convert them to their corresponding HTML entities (like <, >, and &) so the browser does not interpret them as tags.

Encoding and Decoding Special Characters

An html entity converter handles two main tasks:

• Entity Encoding (html entity encoder): Converts standard characters into HTML character entities (e.g. converting <script> into <script>). This prevents browsers from executing the code as a script, allowing you to display raw code snippets on your blog or documentation site safely.
• Entity Decoding (html entity decoder): Converts HTML entities back into their original character equivalents (e.g. converting © back to the copyright symbol ©).

Important Security and Output Rendering

When you use our online html entities encode decode utility, the tool displays the converted output safely. It escapes the processed strings to prevent browsers from executing any script tags or trigger XSS events. This ensures that even if you paste malicious script templates for encoding, they are displayed safely as plain text on our interface.