HTML Entities Problem with &lt; &gt; inside of the <code> segment

[scabro]

I'm having a problem with the following block of code, which comes directly from database:

<pre data-pbcklang="html" data-pbcktabsize="4">
<code class="language-html ">&lt;p&gt;
    &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>

when loaded into the ckeditor it gets converted to:

<pre data-pbcklang="html" data-pbcktabsize="4">

&nbsp;</pre>

<p><code class="language-html "><a href="#">Test</a> </code></p>

Any idea how to prevent this behavior?

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

When loaded through the source mode it is not converted to the code below. It is converted when you set it in <textarea> without encoding it first. Note that the content of <textarea> must be encoded like in our samples. Check e.g. ​http://ckeditor.com/latest/samples/replacebyclass.html

[scabro]

Not sure I understand. The code that's passed to the textarea is

<pre data-pbcklang="html" data-pbcktabsize="4">
<code class="language-html ">&lt;p&gt;
    &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;</code></pre>

What else can I encode here?

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

Exactly everything.

< should become <

and

< should become <

[scabro]

Thanks - I've used htmlentities() and it seemed to do the trick.