Prepare snippets for HTML
Encode reserved characters such as ampersands, angle brackets and quotes before pasting examples into CMS fields, docs or code-heavy pages.
Free Tool
HTML Entity Tool for Smarter Website Decisions
Convert special characters into HTML-safe entities or decode entity-heavy content back into readable text.
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What It Checks
Focus Areas for This Tool
These are the signals I would review manually when deciding what needs fixing first.
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Entity encoding
Review this area to understand whether it is helping or hurting growth.
02
Entity decoding
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03
Named references
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04
Character counts
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Optimization Guide
How This Tool Helps Before Publishing
A little context makes the numbers more useful. Use these notes to understand where this tool fits inside content, SEO and website reviews.
Decode copied CMS content
Turn entity-heavy text back into readable content when exports, support tickets or old templates contain escaped HTML references.
Inspect entity usage quickly
Character and entity counts make it easier to see whether a conversion changed the expected amount of markup or plain text.
Works without server processing
The conversion runs locally in the browser, so draft snippets and copied text do not need to be sent to an external API.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about how this tool works and when to use it.
It encodes common HTML-sensitive characters such as ampersands, angle brackets, quotes and selected symbols into safe entity references.
Yes. The decoder supports decimal and hexadecimal numeric references along with common named references such as amp, lt, gt, quot and copy.
No. Encoding and decoding run in your browser, so pasted snippets are processed locally on your device.
Use non-ASCII encoding when a legacy template, email system or CMS has trouble preserving symbols, smart punctuation or international characters.