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--- 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" ```