DevTilt

HTML Entity Decoder

Convert &, ', 🎉, and other entities back to characters. Incomplete entities are left as-is.

Result

Paste HTML entities to decode.

How to decode HTML entities

  1. Paste entity-encoded text (&, ', 🎉, and similar).
  2. Click Decode.
  3. Named, decimal, and hex entities become characters.
  4. Incomplete or unknown entities are left unchanged.

What is HTML Entity Decoder?

Scraped web pages, RSS feeds, and CMS exports often contain encoded entities like & and ' instead of readable characters. This decoder reverses named and numeric entities back to plain text so you can search, compare, or re-use the content.

Why use DevTilt's HTML Entity Decoder?

  • Decodes named entities (<,  , ©)
  • Handles decimal and hex numeric entities
  • Recovers Unicode characters from entity codes
  • Clear output for copy-paste into editors

Common use cases

  • Cleaning scraped product descriptions for a catalog import
  • Decoding HTML entities in an RSS feed title
  • Recovering readable text from a CMS export
  • Reading encoded content from a legacy database field

FAQ

Named (&), decimal (&), and hexadecimal (&) entities. Common Latin-1 and symbol names are included.
Sequences without a closing semicolon, or unknown names, are left in the output instead of failing the whole string.
No. Decoding runs entirely in your browser.
No. Results appear as plain text in the output editor. The tool does not inject your input into the DOM as HTML.
Yes. Paste attribute values such as href="..." or standalone entity strings. Incomplete entities at the edge of a paste are left unchanged.