Output is text in the tool — never paste decoded attacker HTML into a live DOM unsafely.

Malformed tail may pass through unchanged for manual fix.

Decode iteratively until stable or errors appear.

Browsers forgive more than validators — match your pipeline strictness.

Undefined named entities may differ — prefer numeric if portability matters.

Chunk very large paste-ins to keep the tab responsive.

HTML Entity Decoder

Encode Live

Decode HTML entities back to their original characters.

About this tool

HTML Entity Decoder — Decode HTML entities back to their original characters. Free, fast and private. Runs entirely in your browser at Quick Calci Tools.

Examples

Common scenarios for the HTML Entity Decoder.

Named entities

html: <div>Hi</div>

<div>Hi</div> as plain text, not executed.

Decimal numeric

html: © 2026

Mixed fragment

html: café

café

Who uses the HTML Entity Decoder?

Common scenarios and audiences for this tool.

Data migration

Normalise HTML blobs before ETL.

Scrapers

Recover titles that CMS double-escaped.

Accessibility testers

Compare accessible name strings from ARIA exports.

Writers

Clean entities pasted from WordPress XML.

Students

Reverse homework on character references.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about the HTML Entity Decoder.

About this tool

Examples

Named entities

Decimal numeric

Mixed fragment

Who uses the HTML Entity Decoder?

Data migration

Scrapers

Accessibility testers

Writers

Students

Frequently asked questions

Will it run scripts?

Incomplete entities?

Double-encoded?

Heuristic vs strict?

Privacy?

XML vs HTML5 rules?

Huge exports?

Offline?

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