Prevent converting html entities to tag

[majafy]

I use CKEditor in my project, I use html entities in my content like this:

Sample Code: <pre> &lt;div&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;test&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </pre>

but in CKEditor these html entities will convert to tags so this code will show:

Sample Code: <pre>

</pre>

<div><a href="#">test</a></div>

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

I guess that you load content using a textarea. You should encode it before setting it there, because this:

<textarea>&lt;a&gt;</textarea>

when accessed through textarea.value will return just this:

<a>