HTML Entity Decoder

Decode HTML entities to characters

HTML entities like & and ' represent characters that would otherwise have special meaning in markup, and text extracted from HTML is often full of them. This tool decodes HTML entities back to their characters, so encoded text becomes readable again.

Why entities appear and need decoding

Characters like the ampersand, angle brackets and quotes have special meaning in HTML, so they are encoded as entities to appear as literal text rather than being interpreted as markup. When you extract text from HTML, scraped content, a database field, an API response, it often arrives still encoded, with & where an ampersand belongs. Decoding turns it back into the intended characters. The tool handles both named entities like & and numeric ones like ', converting a wall of encoded text into what it actually says.

Readable text again

It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded and the result is yours to copy straight into a project. Because it works client-side, you can use it on private code and data without anything leaving your machine.

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