HTML Decoder

Q: Which entity formats are supported?

All three: named (&mdash;), decimal numeric (&#8212;) and hexadecimal numeric (&#x2014;), across the full HTML5 named-entity set of over 2,000 names.

Q: Why is my text double-encoded?

Seeing &amp;lt; means the text was encoded twice — usually because a template escaped a value that was already escaped upstream. Decode repeatedly until the output stops changing, then fix the double escaping at its source.

Convert HTML entities back to the characters they represent.

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About the HTML Decoder

Decoding turns entities such as `&`, `<` and `'` back into the characters they represent. It is the fastest way to read content pulled out of an RSS feed, a scraped page or a CMS field that stored markup-safe text and handed it back unchanged.

Double-encoded content is the usual surprise: text showing `&lt;` was escaped twice, and one decode leaves it as `<`. Seeing that is diagnostic in itself, because it means something in the pipeline is escaping content that was already safe.

Frequently asked questions

Which entity formats are supported?

All three: named (&mdash;), decimal numeric (&#8212;) and hexadecimal numeric (&#x2014;), across the full HTML5 named-entity set of over 2,000 names.

Why is my text double-encoded?

Seeing &amp;lt; means the text was encoded twice — usually because a template escaped a value that was already escaped upstream. Decode repeatedly until the output stops changing, then fix the double escaping at its source.