title: How to stop an html TEXTAREA from decoding html entities
body: <p>I have a strange problem:</p>
  
  <p>In the database, I have a literal ampersand lt semicolon: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;lt;div  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>whenever its printed into a html textarea tag, the source code of the page shows the <code>&amp;gt;</code> as <code>&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>How do I stop this decoding?</p>