Frequently Asked Questions
What can I encode here?
You can HTML-encode text, converting special characters like <, >, and & into their safe HTML entity equivalents.
Can this help with web development?
Yes. It is useful for safely inserting user-supplied text into HTML without risk of injection.
Is encoded data uploaded anywhere?
No. All encoding happens in-browser.
Example input/output
Input: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
Output: <script>alert("XSS")</script>
How it works
This tool replaces the characters &, <, >, ", and ' with their HTML entity equivalents (&, <, >, ", ') using JavaScript string replacement. All processing runs in your browser.
Common use cases
- Encode user input before inserting it into HTML to prevent XSS
- Prepare special characters for safe display in HTML attributes
- Encode ampersands and angle brackets in text for XML documents