Escape / Unescape
Escape or unescape text for JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, and regex
Paste text to escape for javascript.
Escape / Unescape for code
This tool escapes or unescapes text for use in JavaScript/JSON, HTML, XML, SQL, and regex. Escaping makes special characters safe for strings and queries; unescaping restores the original text.
Formats
- JavaScript/JSON: Backslashes, quotes, newlines, tabs (e.g.
"\n"). - HTML / XML: Encode
& < > " 'to entities. - SQL: Double single quotes (
'→''). - Regex: Escape
\ ^ $ . | ? * + ( ) [ ] { }for use in regular expressions.
For full HTML entity encode/decode, see the HTML Entities Converter.
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