</> HTML Encoder/Decoder

The HTML Encoder/Decoder safely converts reserved HTML characters (like angle brackets and ampersands) into their corresponding safe "Entities", or conversely, translates those entities back into readable text.

Every web browser relies on characters like < and > to understand where structural tags begin and end. If a user tries to type those literal characters into a comment box or blog post, the browser will become confused and try to execute them as code, ruining the page entirely.

• Preventing XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is the most common web hack in the world. Encoding absolutely all user input forces malicious <script> tags to render as harmless text instead of executing in the database.
• Writing Documentation: Developers creating tutorials on "How to build a website" must constantly encode their examples, otherwise the browser will just render their tutorial as a website rather than displaying the raw code.
• Data Extraction Validation: Decoding massive XML or HTML payloads scraped from older websites that aggressively encoded every single punctuation mark, returning them to a readable state.