---
title: htmlUnescape
linktitle: htmlUnescape
description: Returns the given string with HTML escape codes un-escaped.
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 &amp; Caddy &gt; WordPress &amp; Apache" }} → "Hugo & Caddy > WordPress & Apache"
```
