HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder

HTML entities are special characters that are represented using character references. They are used when:

• The character is reserved in HTML (like < and >)
• The character is difficult to type on a keyboard
• The character is not part of the character encoding of the document

Common examples:

• < becomes &lt;
• > becomes &gt;
• & becomes &amp;
• " becomes &quot;
• ' becomes &apos;