HTML Decode
What this does
Turns HTML entities (&, ’, , é) back into the characters they stand for.
When to use it
- Cleaning text scraped or exported from a web page.
- Reading RSS or API content that arrives entity-encoded.
- Fixing a document where quotes show as
".
Good to know
Numeric entities (&#…;) and named ones are both handled, including the full HTML5 list.