What is HTML Decoding?
HTML Encoding is a way of ensuring text will be accurately shown by a browser.
The process of ‘HTML decoding’ involves undoing a previous ‘HTML encoding’, replacing particular ‘escape sequence’ of characters with their normal representation.
Wikipedia has a good expalanation of character encodings and how some characters should be represented in HTML.
Load the HTML data to decode from a file, then press the ‘Decode’ button:
Alternatively, type or paste in the text you want to HTML–decode, then press the ‘Decode’ button.