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HTML Decoder
Decode HTML entities such as &, <, > back to characters.
About the HTML Decoder
Text pulled from feeds, database dumps and scraped pages often arrives full of &, < and ', which is unreadable and wrong once it reaches a plain-text context.
Paste entity-laden text to get the original characters back, covering named entities and numeric references alike.
How to use the HTML Decoder
- Paste the text containing HTML entities.
- Read the decoded output.
- Decode a second time if you still see entities — &amp; indicates double encoding somewhere upstream.
- Copy the clean text.