Convert special characters into HTML entities (& to &, < to <) - safe against broken markup, locally in your browser, no upload.
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No. Everything runs in your browser - your file never leaves your device. How this is verifiable
In HTML some characters have a special meaning: the angle brackets delimit tags, the ampersand starts an entity, quotation marks delimit attribute values. If you write these characters unchanged into a page, the markup breaks or a security hole appears. This tool replaces the five critical characters with their HTML entities, so the text appears as plain content and is not interpreted as code.
Specifically & becomes &, < becomes <, > becomes >, the double quotation mark becomes " and the single one '. Exactly these five replacements are enough to embed text safely into HTML content or attribute values - the same protection web frameworks apply when outputting user input to prevent cross-site scripting. The reverse direction is handled by the HTML decode tool.
Encoding runs entirely locally in your browser in pure JavaScript - your text is not uploaded, not stored, and no foreign library is loaded from a CDN. You can download the result as a text file or copy it straight into your HTML source.
| Input formats | Text input |
|---|---|
| Output format | TXT |
| Batch processing | No |
| Processing | Locally in your browser (JavaScript) |
| File upload | None |
Limitations: The tool replaces the five HTML-critical characters (& < > " single quote); other characters stay unchanged, because modern pages use UTF-8 and need no further encoding. It is an aid, not a complete security filter: the duty to escape context-appropriately stays with the embedding. Very large texts are limited by your device memory.
No. Encoding runs entirely locally in your browser; your text never leaves your device and is not stored.
The five HTML-critical ones: & becomes &, < becomes <, > becomes >, the double quotation mark becomes " and the single one '.
It is the same basic protection frameworks apply when outputting. It does not fully replace context-appropriate escaping when embedding, though; treat it as an aid.
With the HTML decode tool: it turns the entities back into the original characters.
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