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Unescape HTML Entities

Paste text with HTML entities like & or ' and get the decoded characters back instantly. Handles named and numeric entities.

Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Encoded text

Decoded text

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About this tool

Unescape HTML Entities

Paste text containing HTML entities — &, <, ', and hundreds more — and get back the literal characters instantly. Decoding happens using your browser's own HTML parser, so every named and numeric entity is handled correctly.

Features
  • Decodes named entities (&, <, >, ",  , ...)
  • Decodes numeric entities (', ', ...)
  • Handles large blocks of text
  • Copy-to-clipboard
Examples

Input
Tom & Jerry <3

Output
Tom & Jerry <3

Why do HTML entities show up in my text?

Entities are how HTML represents characters that would otherwise be interpreted as markup (like < and &), or characters outside plain ASCII. They commonly appear after scraping a webpage, exporting from a CMS, or copying from an RSS/XML feed.

Is this the opposite of your Remove HTML Tags tool?

Related but different: Remove HTML Tags strips out markup like <p> and <br>. This tool decodes escaped characters like &amp; back to &. Text scraped from the web often needs both.

Is my text sent anywhere?

No. Decoding happens entirely in your browser using a native HTML parsing trick — nothing is uploaded or stored.

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