HTML Entity Encoder

Escape <, >, &, quotes and optionally every non-ASCII character as HTML entities so code displays as text.

Runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded. Last updated October 7, 2026

How to use

Paste the text or code.
Choose whether to encode only the special characters or all non-ASCII characters.
Copy the escaped result.

It replaces &, , ” and ‘ with entities, and can also convert any character outside basic ASCII to a numeric entity such as é.

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