Text & encoding · Practical guide
Make a piece of text ready for the web
Count it, check the changes, then escape it for the right context.
1. Check the length
Count words and code points before editing. Character limits on other platforms may count grapheme clusters or UTF-16 units instead.
Open Word & character counter ↗2. Review your changes
Compare the original with your revision. Look for accidental removals, repeated lines and whitespace changes before copying the final text.
Open Text difference checker ↗3. Escape for HTML text
Escape reserved characters if the text will be inserted into HTML text content. Do not use this as a universal sanitizer for URLs, scripts or attributes. For a URL query value, use URL component encoding instead.
Open HTML entity converter ↗Tool links open a fresh workspace. Inputs are not transferred between pages. For supported text operations, the private workbench offers explicit transfers in memory.