HTML Decoder

Decode HTML entities back into readable characters.

HTML Decoder restores entity-encoded text so you can edit the original characters and symbols again.

Input

Output

When to use HTML Decoder

Cleaning text copied from encoded sources
Recovering readable samples from docs
Preparing content before re-encoding

Example

&lt;p&gt;Hello &amp; welcome&lt;/p&gt;
→ <p>Hello & welcome</p>

Benefits

Free to use—no account required
Runs in your browser
Instant results with no software install
Basic processing does not upload your content to a server
Decoded output may contain real tags. Treat it carefully before inserting into a page.

Not the same as

Encoding is the reverse direction. Tag stripping removes markup instead of decoding entities.

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