When to use HTML Decoder

Cleaning text copied from encoded sources
Recovering readable samples from docs
Preparing content before re-encoding

Example

Input

&copy; &#128512; &lt;p&gt;

Output

© 😀 <p>

How to use

Paste entities. Paste text containing & < > or similar entities.
Decode. Run to convert entities back to characters.
Verify. Confirm the result matches the intended plain text.

Processing and limitations

Decodes named and numeric entities using the browser HTML parser, once per run. Output remains plain text in the result panel; inserting decoded markup into another page requires context-appropriate handling.

Reference

Benefits

Free to use—no account required
Runs in your browser
Instant results with no software install
Basic processing does not upload your content to a server
Decoded output may contain real tags. Treat it carefully before inserting into a page.

Not the same as

Encoding is the reverse direction. Tag stripping removes markup instead of decoding entities.

HTML Decoder