Encoding

HTML Unescape

Decode HTML entities back to characters — supports & < numeric ' and hex ' forms.

HTML-escaped text

Plain text

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Why use our HTML Unescape?

Everything runs in your browser. Your data never leaves your device — safe for production payloads.

No round trips, no rate limits, no login. Format, validate and inspect megabytes of JSON in milliseconds.

Follows RFC 8259 / ECMA-404 exactly. Reports errors with precise line and column diagnostics.

Escape HTML special characters (< > & " ') to entities. Safe injection into HTML markup.

Decode XML entities back to characters — supports named, numeric and hexadecimal entity references.

Reverse CSV field quoting — strips surrounding quotes and unescapes doubled quotes.

Unescape a Java string literal back into plain text — decodes \uXXXX and \n \t etc.

Unescape a JSON string literal back to plain text — reverses \n, \", \uXXXX and other escapes.

Reverse SQL escaping — collapses doubled single quotes and escaped backslashes.