Difference between Url Encode and HTML encode

Question

What’s the difference between an URL Encode and a HTML Encode?

Answer 1

HTMLEncode and URLEncode deal with invalid characters in HTML and URLs, or more accurately, characters that need to be specially written to be interpreted correctly. For example, in HTML the < and > characters are used to indicate tags. Thus, if you wanted to write a math formula, something like 1+1 < 2+2, the '<' would normally be interpreted as the beginning of a tag. HTMLEncoding turns this character into "<" which is the encoded representation of the less-than sign. URLEncoding does the same, but for URLs, for which the special characters are different, although there is some overlap.