What does the HTML Escape & Unescape do?

An HTML entity encoding and decoding utility. Converts special characters (`&`, ` `, `"`, `'`) into named entities (`&`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `'`), decimal numeric entities (`&`), or hexadecimal entities (`&`) to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and decodes entity strings back to raw HTML.

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HTML Escape & Unescape - Tool Overview

Safely encode reserved HTML characters (&, <, >, ", ') into named or numeric HTML entities to prevent XSS attacks, and decode entities back to raw markup.

Category: encoders-and-decoders

Best used when: Use this tool when displaying user-generated input safely inside HTML templates, encoding code snippets for documentation tutorials, or decoding escaped HTML responses from legacy APIs.

Summary: Safely encode reserved HTML characters (&, <, >, ", ') into named or numeric HTML entities to prevent XSS attacks, and decode entities back to raw markup.

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