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.

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.

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