Encode or decode HTML entities to display special characters safely.
HTML entities are small code snippets used in web development to represent characters that either have a special role in HTML or can't be typed directly on a keyboard. These codes always begins with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;).
For example, the entity < shows a less-than sign (<), and & represents an ampersand (&). Without encoding, your browser might confuse them for HTML code rather than content.
These special encodings are known as HTML entities, and they help keep your markup clean and readable.
HTML entities are really useful when it comes to both safety and compatibilty in websites. Some main reasons to use them:
Whether you're writing blogs, emails or code, using entities helps your content display smoothly and securely.
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< and & into safe HTML entities.It works with named entities like and numeric ones like . Fast, easy and super useful when writing HTML by hand.
Whenever a character would otherwise be read as markup, angle brackets and ampersands in particular, or when you need a symbol your editor cannot type directly.
Yes. Named forms and numeric forms are both recognized when decoding.
They are the same character written two ways. The named form is easier to read in source; the numeric form works even where the name is not recognized.
For accented letters and symbols, usually not. For the characters that mean something in HTML, yes. An unescaped angle bracket or ampersand can break the markup or open a hole an attacker can put script through.
Yes. A double quote inside a double-quoted attribute ends the attribute early and breaks the tag, so encode it as ".
A non-breaking space looks exactly like an ordinary space but stops the line wrapping at that point. Decoding turns the entity into that invisible character; the Invisible Character Remover takes them back out.