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Ampersand Encoder

Escape bare ampersands and angle brackets in a text or HTML snippet into their &/</> entity forms, without double-encoding characters that are already escaped.

How to Use Ampersand Encoder
  1. 1Paste your text, URL, or HTML/XML snippet
  2. 2Click Process
  3. 3Review the escaped output — & becomes &amp;, < and > become &lt; and &gt;
  4. 4Copy the escaped result into your HTML, XML, or query string
Frequently Asked Questions

A bare & is the start of a character-entity reference (like &amp; or &lt;), so an unescaped & in your content can break HTML/XML parsing or display incorrectly — it needs to become &amp; to render as a literal ampersand.

No — it checks whether an & is already followed by amp;, lt;, gt;, quot;, or apos; and leaves those alone, only escaping genuinely bare ampersands.

No — this tool only escapes & (to &amp;) and angle brackets < and > (to &lt; and &gt;); it doesn't convert straight or curly quotes to &quot; or &apos;, so quotes are left as-is.

When you specifically need to fix bare ampersands and angle brackets in a URL query string, XML feed, or HTML snippet — for full entity encoding (including quotes and other reserved characters), use a general-purpose HTML entity encoder tool instead.

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