CKEditor is escaping html elements
I am using CKEditor to insert text into a MySQL database. I have noticed that my installed CKEditor is escaping all HTML elements when the data reaches the database. Therefore the following is what I am getting in the database after I have inserted the text with CKEditor: '&' (ampersand) becomes '&' '"' (double quote) becomes '" "'" (single quote) becomes '' '<' (less than) becomes '<' '>' (greater than) becomes '>' I would rather disable the CKEditor HTML escaping completely, and rely on my PHP script to handle the HTML escaping using PHP's htmlspecialchars . Another good reason for me to