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HTML Decode
Unescape HTML entities back to plain text
Runs locally in your browser
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How it works
Converts HTML entities back to their original characters—useful when reading escaped snippets from databases, emails, or RSS feeds.
Who it's for: Developers debugging stored content, content migrators, and analysts reading exported HTML fields
Translates entities such as <, >, &, and " back to literal characters.
Processes standard named and numeric entities in the input string.
Shows readable text in the Result panel instantly.
How to use
- Paste a string containing HTML entities into the Input field.
- Verify the decoded readable text in Result.
- Click Copy for use in plain-text reports or further editing.
- Do not execute decoded content as HTML unless you trust the source.
Good to know
- Decoding untrusted HTML can still be dangerous if you inject it into the DOM—treat output as plain text until sanitized.
- Malformed entities may pass through unchanged—fix source data if decoding looks partial.