Question 1

What does escaping a string mean?

Accepted Answer

Escaping converts characters that have special meaning in a given context (like quotes, angle brackets, backslashes or ampersands) into safe sequences so the string can be embedded without breaking the syntax. For example, in JSON a double quote becomes \", and in HTML a < becomes <.

Question 2

Which formats does this tool support?

Accepted Answer

It supports JSON (and JavaScript), HTML entities, XML, URL encoding (component and full), regular expressions, SQL string literals, CSV quoting, shell/Bash single-quoting and C/Java backslash escapes. Each format can be escaped and most can be unescaped back to the original text.

Question 3

Can it unescape HTML entities including numeric ones?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The HTML/XML unescape handles named entities (like &, <, ",   and ') as well as decimal (&#8217;) and hexadecimal (&#x2019;) numeric character references.

Question 4

Is my text sent to a server?

Accepted Answer

No. All escaping and unescaping happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or transmitted. The tool works offline after the page loads.