Decode HTML Entities to Text
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About HTML Entity Decoder
**What is HTML Entity Decoding?**
HTML entity decoding converts entity codes back to their original characters. For example, < becomes <, & becomes &, and é becomes e with an acute accent.
**Common Decoding Scenarios:**
- Cleaning up text copied from web pages
- Processing HTML content from APIs
- Reading RSS feed content
- Analyzing web scraping results
- Converting HTML emails to plain text
**Types of HTML Entities Decoded:**
**Named Entities:**
- < (less than) -> <
- > (greater than) -> >
- & (ampersand) -> &
- " (quote) -> "
- (non-breaking space) -> (space)
**Numeric Entities:**
- < (decimal) -> <
- < (hexadecimal) -> <
- é -> accented e
**Developer Use Cases:**
When working with web data, you often encounter HTML entities that need to be converted back to readable text:
- Processing content from CMS systems
- Parsing HTML documents
- Converting web content to other formats
- Cleaning data exports from web applications
**How It Works:**
Paste text containing HTML entities into the input field. The decoder recognizes both named entities (like &) and numeric entities (like &) and converts them to their character equivalents.
Frequently Asked Questions
Paste your text containing HTML entities (like & or <) into the input field. The tool automatically converts all entities to their character equivalents.
The decoder supports named entities (like &), decimal numeric entities (like &), and hexadecimal numeric entities (like &).
This typically means the text was double-encoded. Run the decoder once to get &, or the source has actual & characters that became visible.
Yes! The decoder handles all standard HTML entities including special symbols like © (copyright), ® (registered), ™ (trademark), and more.
Yes, numeric entities for Unicode characters (like € for the Euro sign or あ for Japanese hiragana) are fully supported.
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