Escape and unescape HTML
Turn < into < and back — for when you're pasting code into a page and it keeps becoming markup.
Runs on your device
No uploads, ever
Free, no account
How it works
- Paste the content
Code samples, email templates, anything that keeps getting interpreted.
- Escape or unescape
Escape turns angle brackets and ampersands into entities; unescape reverses it, named entities included.
- Copy the result
Paste safe now.
Questions people actually ask
What gets escaped?
The five that matter in HTML: & < > " '. Everything else is left readable for humans.
Unescape named or numeric entities?
Both — & and & decode equally happily.