About HTML Entity Conversion

• • Encode (Named): Converts only essential characters (<, >, &, quotes)
• • Encode (Numeric): Converts all special characters to numeric codes (&, <)
• • Encode All: Converts all accented and special characters to named entities
• • Decode: Converts HTML entities back to normal characters
• • Essential for safely displaying user content in HTML
• • Prevents XSS attacks by encoding dangerous characters