entities → readable text
This tool converts HTML entities like <, >, and & back into their original readable characters (<, >, &).
Reading HTML source that's full of entity codes as plain text.
Cleaning up text copied from a webpage's source view.
Converting entity-encoded content back to normal text for editing.
Yes — both named entities (like &) and numeric character references are decoded back to their original characters.
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