HTML Encode Online Tool - Best for Developers

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Html Encode is a tool that allows you to encode plain HTML to encoded HTML. Special characters like &, <, >, " and ' are converted to their corresponding HTML entities.

HTML Input

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Encoded Output

Free HTML Encode Online - HTML Entities Encoder

Encoding HTML special characters

This tool replaces characters that carry special meaning in HTML with their entity equivalents: < becomes <, & becomes &.

That way the text appears on the page exactly as written instead of being interpreted as markup.

How to use it

Paste the text and copy the result into your HTML file.

Encode only the text content, not the markup itself — otherwise your own tags are output as visible text.

What it is useful for

Required when you want to display code samples on a page: without encoding the browser would run or render them.

Encoding also matters when outputting form input, so that submitted markup does not take effect.

Frequently asked questions

Which characters are replaced?

Chiefly <, >, & and quotation marks — the characters HTML uses for markup.

Why is my sample still rendered as formatting?

Then the markup was not encoded. Check that the text content really was rewritten.

Can I reverse the process?

Yes, with the tool that decodes HTML entities.