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Asked: June 9, 20262026-06-09T05:20:15+00:00 2026-06-09T05:20:15+00:00

I have HTML tags formatted in the database ( < becomes &lt; and so

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I have HTML tags formatted in the database (< becomes &lt; and so on).

The problem I’m having is the HTML tags are being outputted literally; instead of <b>Text</b> making text bold, it’s being displayed as &lt;b&gt;

Does anybody know why this is? Or how to fix it please?

The output on the website:
the website

HTML code in the DB:
partial image of the data in the DB.

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    2026-06-09T05:20:16+00:00Added an answer on June 9, 2026 at 5:20 am

    Use html_entity_decode()

    echo html_entity_decode("&lt;b&gt;"); // <b>
    
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