PHP如何在变量中使用html标签/实体？

Question

I have content that I want to display in a textarea. And on a another page in a div. The content I got from inside my database. And was inserted in the database with CKeditor. Sound easy, right?

The problem is that when I use echo or print I am getting <b>Some content</b> instead of Some content.

Believe it or not I spend 6 hours already trying to solve this problem. What is normal amount for me to spend on a problem. Only normally I am at least one step closer solving the problem. But now I am still as clueless as I started.

And yes I am using: <meta charset="utf-8">

My code(Just a basic echo, since I don`t know what to do)

<textarea ><?php echo $content; ?></textarea>

Current output:

<li><s><em><strong><span class="marker">Dit is gewijzigd?</span></strong>

But I would like this:

Dit is gewijzigd?

Answer 1

You may try it like this to make the content editable

<div contenteditable><?php echo $content; ?></div>

EDIT :

try this

<div><?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode($content); ?></div>