Simple online tools for escaping and decoding text used in HTML, Java, JavaScript, and other programming environments. Paste your text, convert it instantly, and copy the result.
Convert text into safe HTML entities.
Decode HTML entities back into readable text.
Escape text for safe use in Java string literals.
Escape text for JavaScript string literals.
Encode files into Base64 instantly.
Many programming languages and markup formats require special characters to be escaped so they are interpreted correctly. Characters such as <, >, quotes, backslashes, and control characters can break HTML, Java, JavaScript, or JSON if they are not encoded properly.
These tools help developers quickly convert text into safe encoded forms or decode escaped text back into readable content.
Text escaping converts characters into encoded representations so they can safely appear inside code or markup.
This site currently provides tools for HTML escaping and decoding, Java string escaping, and JavaScript string escaping.
I started this site in 2006 to build small utility tools I needed in my own work as a programmer. It has gradually grown into a collection of simple tools for escaping and decoding text used in HTML, Java, JavaScript, and other programming environments.