</>
HTML Formatter
Validate · Format · Beautify
Format HTML →

HTML Tool

HTML Encoder & Decoder

Encode special characters like <, >, & into safe HTML entities — or decode them back. Essential for displaying code inside webpages.

html-encoder-decoder
Input
Output

What is HTML encoding?

HTML encoding converts special characters like <, >, & into safe entity equivalents (&lt;, &gt;, &amp;) so they display correctly without being parsed as markup.

When do you need it?

Any time you show HTML code inside a webpage, inside a CMS, or inside an attribute value. Without encoding, the browser would parse the angle brackets as real tags.

Decoding

Decoding reverses the process — converting entities back into readable characters. Useful when working with escaped data from APIs, databases, or serialized content.