How it works
Complete the job in three clear steps
- Choose plain text or entity text.
- Set the available options and create encoded or decoded text.
- Review the result before downloading or relying on it.
Private Lucaden developer & data tool
HTML Entity Encoder & Decoder
Encode reserved HTML characters or decode named and numeric entities locally.
Free to use Your source content is processed in this browser and is not uploaded to Lucaden.
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Important
Check the result before relying on it
Review generated output before using it in production. Formatters and converters can validate structure, but they cannot understand every application-specific rule or guarantee that transformed content has the intended meaning.
Practical details
What this Lucaden tool does
Lucaden uses inert DOM text/value properties rather than executing the input as markup. Encoding covers the reserved characters used in ordinary HTML text.
The original remains unchanged; Lucaden creates a separate result in browser memory.
Included capabilities
- Named entity decoding
- Numeric entity decoding
- Reserved-character encoding
- No HTML execution
Useful for
- Prepare code examples
- Inspect escaped copy
- Debug templates
- Convert pasted entities
Questions
About this tool
Does decoding execute scripts?
No. The decoded result is placed in a text field and is never inserted as active HTML.
Does it encode every Unicode character?
No. It encodes the reserved HTML characters while leaving ordinary Unicode readable.