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HTML Entity Encoder
Convert special characters (<, >, &, quotes) into their HTML entity equivalents using the browser DOM, guaranteeing correct escaping.
How to Use HTML Entity Encoder
- 1Paste your text
- 2Click Process
- 3Copy the HTML-entity-escaped output
Frequently Asked Questions
It sets your text as a textarea's textContent, then reads back its innerHTML — this uses the browser's own DOM serialization, which is guaranteed to produce correctly-escaped HTML rather than relying on a hand-written regex that might miss an edge case.
At minimum <, >, and & (the characters that are structurally significant in HTML) — the browser's DOM serializer handles exactly what's needed for the text to round-trip safely as HTML content.
No — it only escapes what's structurally necessary for valid HTML (<, >, &); accented and non-Latin characters are typically left as-is since they're valid UTF-8 HTML content, not required to become entities.
No — the conversion runs entirely via your browser's own DOM APIs.
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