From HTML entities to text

Convert HTML entity references back into their literal Unicode characters — the inverse of entity encoding.

Supported forms

• Named entities — &, <, >, ", ', and other common names
• Decimal numeric — é → é
• Hexadecimal numeric — ' → apostrophe

The decoder scans for &…; sequences and replaces them when recognized; unrecognized sequences are left intact so you can spot typos.

When to use it

Read exported CMS HTML, recover original punctuation from XML feeds, or verify round-trips after encoding with the companion text-to-entities tool.

Limitations

Malformed entities (missing semicolon, unknown name) may remain partially encoded. The tool does not parse full HTML documents or strip tags — only entity substitution on the pasted string. Security note: decoding untrusted entities before injecting into HTML can reintroduce markup if subsequent escaping is skipped.

Example

<& decodes to <&.

This skill is available over A2A JSON-RPC and REST. When you already know the skill id and export, call execute directly—no discovery step required.

REST example

curl -sS -X POST https://toolplaza.app/api/helpers/execute \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"skillId":"html-entities__from-html-entities-to-text","export":"decodeHtmlEntities","args":["SGVsbG8="]}'

A2A JSON-RPC example

Send POST https://toolplaza.app/api/a2a with:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": "1",
  "method": "message/send",
  "params": {
    "message": {
      "messageId": "uuid",
      "role": "user",
      "parts": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "text": "ignored"
        }
      ]
    },
    "metadata": {
      "toolplaza": {
        "skillId": "html-entities__from-html-entities-to-text",
        "export": "decodeHtmlEntities",
        "args": [
          "SGVsbG8="
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

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