CKEditor displaying HTML tags in editor

Question

I am using a CKEditor and saving content to a MySQL database. When trying to edit the content again in the editor, I am getting HTML tags displayed as text, for example:

Answer 1

It seems that CodeIgniter's func set_value() acts like htmlspecialchars() in some way. So if you are getting on CKEditor this workaround can help you. Change

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", set_value('sec1_content', html_entity_decode($default_value)), $config);

To this:

$ck_editor->editor("sec1_content", html_entity_decode(set_value('sec1_content', $default_value)), $config);

PoloRM
Put html_entity_decode around set_value. The reason for this is obviously because the set_value method might not use the $default_value parameter but return the posted data instead.