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HTML Entity Decoder

Resolve named and numeric entities back to characters.

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About this tool

Turns entities back into the characters they represent, including named, decimal and hexadecimal forms. Output is plain text and is never inserted into the page as markup.

Limitations

  • Decoded output is displayed as text. It is never inserted into the page as markup.

Questions

Why does my text have & in it?
It was encoded twice. Decode repeatedly until the output stops changing.

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