Format
html_decode(HtmlText)
Args
HtmlText: text to be “unescaped”
Returns
unescaped text
Special characters such as < and > are not displayed literally in html and may produce garbled output. To display these characters literally, they must be “escaped”. For example, < is produced by the code < and > is produced by the code >.
The html_decode() instruction takes a text string containing such escaped symbols and turns them into their literal counterparts. The more useful function is html_encode() which does the reverse.