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HTML Entity Decode
Decode HTML entities (numeric and the common named ones) back into plain characters.
Runs in your browser Your input never leaves your device.
0 characters | 0 words
About this tool
Turns HTML entities back into the characters they stand for. It uses your browser's own HTML parser, so it decodes numeric entities such as © and 😀 (including emoji above U+FFFF) and every named entity the browser knows, such as &, <, © and é. Angle brackets in your input are kept as literal text, and the text is parsed in a detached document, so no HTML is rendered and no script runs. Decoding is a single pass. Everything happens in your browser.
How to use it
- Paste text containing entities.
- Read the decoded text in the output.
- Copy the result.
Example
Input
<p>Tom & Jerry © é 😀
Result
<p>Tom & Jerry © é 😀
Common problems
- Double-encoded input like &lt;
- One pass is done, so &lt; becomes <. Run it again to decode the next layer.
- A non-breaking space looks like a normal space
- becomes a no-break space character (U+00A0), which looks the same but is a different character.
- Entities without a semicolon
- Follow the browser's rules: only a few legacy names such as & or © work without a semicolon. Add the semicolon to be safe.