How to decode HTML entities back to plain characters

1. Paste the HTML-encoded text

   Drop the entity-encoded string into the "Text" field. Both named entities (`&`, `<`, `©`) and numeric entities (`'`, `'`) are recognised.

2. Press Run

   Result returns a single `decoded` field. Examples: `&lt;p&gt;Hi&amp;ya&lt;/p&gt;` → `<p>Hi&ya</p>`; `caf&eacute;` → `café`. Unknown entities (typos, made-up ones) pass through unchanged.

3. Common upstream sources

   RSS feeds, email-body HTML, scraped page text, and JSON exports that double-escape are typical inputs. After decoding, the result is plain Unicode — not HTML — so don't re-embed it in HTML without re-encoding via `html-entity-encoder` first.

4. Decode once, not twice

   Don't pipe the output back into the decoder thinking it might still have hidden entities. If a string was double-encoded upstream you'll need to decode twice, but only after confirming with a sample — blindly double-decoding mangles legitimate `&` characters.