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HTML entities: encode and decode

Show code on a web page without the browser running it, or turn & and ₹ codes back into normal characters.

Encode (escape) Decode

Also encode non-English characters (₹)

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Common HTML entities

Character	Entity	Number	Use
<	<	<	Less than, starts a tag
>	>	>	Greater than
&	&	&	Ampersand, starts an entity
"	"	"	Quote inside attributes
'	'	'	Apostrophe
(space)			Space that never breaks a line
©	©	©	Copyright
₹	—	₹	Indian rupee

Escaping <, >, & and quotes is also how websites stop cross-site scripting (XSS): text a user types is shown as text, never run as code.