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Input
HTML or text
Modes
2 explicit
Runtime
Browser

Decode bounded HTML character references

Decode comprehensive HTML5 character references as plain text while leaving unknown names visible.

Local processingNo sign-upNo resource loading

Decode HTML entities

Source stays in this tab. Parser input is capped at 500 KiB; sanitizing uses 256 KiB.

Decoded plain text

Every result is inert, copyable source or data, never live DOM.

What this tool does

Explicit-mode, bounded, local parsing

Decoding follows HTML5 character-reference rules and returns plain text. It does not render tags or execute decoded markup.

Unknown references remain visible

Decoding follows HTML5 character-reference rules and returns plain text. It does not render tags or execute decoded markup.

The parser runs locally with a 500 KiB input cap, 100,000-node and 100-level tree limits, and a 1 MiB output cap. It never fetches URLs, loads resources, uploads source, or saves a preset.

Explicit document and fragment modes

Document mode applies the HTML document parser and may supply implied html, head, or body structure. Fragment mode parses only a pasted fragment. The selected mode is part of the result and is never inferred from the text.

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