Why do I have to escape text?
Text in html should always be escaped. If your web page is in a language, which contains characters outside the normal English letters, you have an even bigger reason for escaping your text.The reason for this is, special characters can be shown correctly on a web page, if it contains the correct character encoding. However, in most browsers, the visitors can set their own encoding and select their own. This can cause special characters not to be displayed correctly. Escaped characters are always displayed correctly.
Even when writing text and only using characters known from English speaking regions, people tend to use characters like < > & which can really mess up a web page.
Our online escape tool provides you with a simple way to escape your text, and is totally free.