How to prevent CKEditor from stripping < and> (greater-than/less-than)

Question

Every time I enter < or > in a CKEditor window, save, and then come back to it, CKEditor replaces them with whatever was typed within the bra

Answer 1

Yeah, this is a real pain.

The only workaround I've found so far is to use

CKEDITOR.instances.myInst.setData(myData);

This actually handles escaped vs. unescaped html correctly, so your < and > will come out correctly, as less-than and greater-than signs, instead of being interpreted as markup.

I haven't found a way to get this to work with inlined data yet. The setData() workaround is pretty clunky.