HTML Entities

Encode and decode HTML entities — convert special characters to safe HTML and back.

HTML Entity Reference

Entity	Character	Description
&	&	Ampersand
<	<	Less than
>	>	Greater than
"	"	Double quote
'	'	Single quote
		Non-breaking space
©	©	Copyright sign
®	®	Registered trademark
™	™	Trademark
€	€	Euro sign
—	—	Em dash
–	–	En dash
…	…	Ellipsis
«	«	Left double angle quote
»	»	Right double angle quote

HTML Entity Encoder and Decoder

HTML entities are special character sequences used in HTML to safely display reserved and special characters.

When to encode / decode

when inserting user-generated HTML into a page (XSS protection);
when displaying code in the browser as text rather than markup;
when decoding HTML responses from APIs or web scraping;
when working with XML and HTML in templates.