Free HTML Entity Encoder

Safely display special characters on your website. Convert symbols like <, >, and & into their HTML entity equivalents.

Work Steps

Step 1
Enter your age in days, months, and years in the text box.
Step 2
You will see your current age.

Use Cases

Security
Prevent script injection in user inputs.
Display
Show code snippets on web pages.
Validation
Ensure valid HTML markup.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is HTML Entity Encoder and what is it used for?

An HTML entity encoder converts characters such as <, >, &, quotes, and other special characters into safe HTML entity representations.

Paste text into the encoder and copy the encoded output into the HTML context where escaping is required.

Encoding prevents special characters from being interpreted as markup when they are intended to be displayed as text.

Not every character must always be encoded, but encoding reserved HTML characters is important in HTML text and attributes.

It is useful when displaying user-generated text, code examples, or literal HTML characters on a webpage.

Encoding is context-dependent: HTML escaping is not the same as URL encoding, JavaScript escaping, or SQL escaping.