Disclaimer

Last updated: October 2026

The tool this page covers is EscapeHTML, an HTML entity encoder and decoder. Put simply, it escapes text into HTML entities to prevent cross-site scripting and decodes entities back to plain text, with named, decimal and hex styles, and the way it does so is this: it escapes the five characters that change meaning in HTML — ampersand, angle brackets and both quote styles — and because decoding is single-pass, an escaped sequence like A resolves back to the literal text A rather than to A, which is exactly the behavior that keeps a second decode from turning sanitized input back into live markup. Everything stated here applies to that tool and the values it handles, and to nothing else.

Everything the tool works with — the text or entity string you paste — is handled locally. It is usually reached for things like checking whether a payload would survive one decode, and because nothing is transmitted a visitor can close the tab knowing no copy was made anywhere.

The nature of this site

Everything on escapehtml.com is provided for general information and education. Results are estimates produced from what you enter, not measurements, and not professional advice. EscapeHTML is built to be useful, not authoritative.

Developer tool output

What a developer tool emits is a draft, not a finished artefact. Review anything EscapeHTML generates — a type, a reformatted document, a converted value — against your own requirements before it goes anywhere near production.

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No warranty

The assumption that matters most for EscapeHTML is that your input matches the model. It escapes the five characters that change meaning in HTML — ampersand, angle brackets and both quote styles — and because decoding is single-pass, an escaped sequence like A resolves back to the literal text A rather than to A, which is exactly the behavior that keeps a second decode from turning sanitized input back into live markup. When it does not — or when rounding, unit handling or browser behavior intervenes — no warranty attaches to the Site, careful as we are with the method.

Third-party links

Any link to another site is provided for convenience. That content is outside our control and we are not answerable for it.

Your responsibility

The final check is yours: make sure a result matches your situation before you rely on it. Found an error? The contact page is the fastest way to tell us.