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dir: /content/en/functions/htmlUnescape.md/
---
title: htmlUnescape
linktitle: htmlUnescape
description: Returns the given string with HTML escape codes un-escaped.
godocref:
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
menu:
docs:
parent: "functions"
keywords: []
signature: ["htmlUnescape INPUT"]
workson: []
hugoversion:
relatedfuncs: [htmlEscape]
deprecated: false
aliases: []
---
`htmlUnescape` returns the given string with HTML escape codes un-escaped.
Remember to pass the output of this to `safeHTML` if fully un-escaped characters are desired. Otherwise, the output will be escaped again as normal.
```
{{ htmlUnescape "Hugo & Caddy > WordPress & Apache" }} → "Hugo & Caddy > WordPress & Apache"
```