What is it?
HTML Entities Encode / Decode turns characters that mean something in HTML (< > & ") into safe codes like <, and turns codes back into text.
Who is it for?
Bloggers showing code in posts, developers escaping text for HTML, and anyone fixing text full of & and ".
How to use it
- Paste the text or code.
- Choose Encode or Decode.
- Copy the result.
Show code on a Blogger or WordPress post
- Choose Encode and paste your code.
- Copy the result and paste it in the post’s HTML view, inside
<pre><code> … </code></pre>. - Visitors then see the code itself, instead of the browser running it or hiding it.
Options
- Also encode every non-English character (₹ style): turns ₹, é and Hindi into number codes. Only needed for very old systems or emails that mangle Unicode. Modern pages don’t need it.
- Decode: makes text with
&,"or'readable again, for example text copied from a feed or database.
Problems and fixes
- You see &amp;: the text was encoded twice. Decode it twice.
- Blogger changed my code: paste encoded code only in HTML view; the Compose view encodes again.
Encoding for display is not the same as making user input safe in your own app: use your framework’s escaping for that.
Open the tool: HTML Entities Encode / Decode
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