HTML Entity Decoder

Reverses HTML entity encoding: it finds named entities (`&`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `'`) and numeric entities (like `©` or `❤`) and replaces each with the actual character it represents, using the browser's own HTML parser so the full entity table — not just the five basic ones — is covered.

Paste text containing HTML entities into the input box; the decoded, readable text appears automatically below it. Copy it with the copy button when it looks right.

Pasting `Café & Bar — 100% fresh` decodes to `Café & Bar — 100% fresh`: the named entities `é` and `—` and the numeric entity `%` all resolve to their single-character equivalents.

HTML defines both short mnemonic names for common characters (`©` for ©) and numeric references for any Unicode code point (`©` or the hexadecimal `©` for the same symbol) — this tool decodes both forms the same way, since they ultimately represent the same characters.

Decoding entities is useful after scraping web page text, copying content out of a CMS export, or reading raw HTML source where `&` and `<` had to be entity-encoded — it turns that markup-safe text back into what a reader would actually see on the page.

This decodes entities within plain text; it does not strip HTML tags, sanitize scripts, or otherwise parse a full document — pasting a complete HTML page will decode entities inside it but leave the tags themselves in place.

Decoding runs entirely in your browser via client-side JavaScript; the text you paste is never uploaded to a server or stored.