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Backslash Escape & Unescape

Escape special characters into backslash sequences for code, or unescape them back to raw text.

100% client-side · nothing is uploaded

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How to use the Backslash Escape

Choose the mode you need with the Encode / Decode toggle at the top of the tool.
Type or paste your text into the Input box — the result appears instantly as you type.
Use Swap (⇅) to move the output back into the input and flip the mode, which is handy for round-trips.
Click Copy to copy the result, or Clear to start over.

Privacy: this tool runs entirely in your browser. Your input is never sent to, received by, or stored on any server — there are no uploads and no tracking of what you enter.

About Backslash Escape

Why escape strings

Programming languages represent newlines and tabs as \n and \t, and quotes must be escaped inside string literals. This tool converts between raw text and escaped form.

What it handles

Backslash, newline, tab, carriage return and double quotes are escaped or unescaped in both directions.

Where it helps

Pasting multi-line text into source code, JSON string values and config files.

Frequently asked questions

What sequences are supported?

\n, \t, \r, \" and \\.

Is this the same as JSON escaping?

Similar — it covers the common escapes used in JSON and most languages.

Does it run in my browser?

Yes, fully client-side.