Paste HTML entity sequences to recover plain text—useful for CMS excerpts, emails, or reversing quick escapes. Pair with the HTML encode tool for round-trips.
HTML entities
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How it works
Numeric decimal and hexadecimal references are resolved to Unicode code points.
A small set of named entities (amp, lt, gt, quot, apos, nbsp) is supported.
Limits
Very large HTML entity lists are not embedded; exotic names may not decode here.
Content
Decoding does not execute HTML; it only produces text.
Common questions
- Why is my entity unchanged?
- It may be an unsupported named entity; use numeric form or a full HTML parser.
- Hex codes?
- Yes. € style references work.
- Encode then decode round-trip?
- For the characters this tool handles, pairing with HTML encode usually matches.
- Local only?
- Yes.