HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder
Encode special characters into safe HTML entities, or decode them back to text.
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What are HTML Entities?
Certain characters are reserved in HTML and cannot be used freely in text because the browser will interpret them as HTML markup. For example, the less-than sign (<) starts an HTML tag.
Encoding (Escaping)
To display these reserved characters, they must be converted into character entities. For example, < becomes <. This process is crucial for displaying code snippets on websites and preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by escaping user input.
Decoding (Unescaping)
Decoding is the reverse process. It takes a string containing HTML entities (like &) and converts them back to their original characters (like &).
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