HTML inside mini-pager navigation control labels I'm trying to customize the output of the mini-pager controller (the "next" and "previous" link with arrows) in a view.
Actually, it is possible to insert custom text for "previous"-link in the view pager options, in the "tag" section.
I tried to add inside the form (for a test), this:

&lt;i class="icon-chevron-left"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;


The resulting output is

&lt;a href="front?page=1"&gt;&amp;lt;i class="icon-chevron-right"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;


So actually I think it filters HTML.
Do you think it's possible to include HTML?
I just spent the last 2 hours trying to solve the same problem, using many different approaches, but I finally managed to get it right.

You just have to override the theme_pager_link function in your theme by copying the code content to template.php and change the return (last line), removing the check_plain() function of the $text variable, leaving it like:

return '&lt;a' . drupal_attributes($attributes) . '&gt;' . $text . '&lt;/a&gt;';