# From HTML Entity

Converts HTML entities back to characters For example, `&` becomes `&`. From HTML Entity lives in the **Data format** category of the `fx` menu. See [HTML character references](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/named-characters.html) for format details.

## Parameter

| Parameter | Type   | Required | Default | Description                                            |
| --------- | ------ | -------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| Input     | string | yes      | —       | Value to transform. Previous step output or a literal. |

`Input` is the primary value (previous step output or a literal).

## Returned value

| Type     | Description                                    |
| -------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| `string` | Result of the From HTML Entity transformation. |

## Example

<details>
<summary>Decode HTML entities</summary>

Convert HTML entities back to characters.

1. Set **Input** to the entity-encoded text. Paste:

   ```text title="Input"
   A &amp; B &lt; C
   ```

2. Confirm **Output value** is `A & B < C`.

</details>