title: Why are my "<br />" tags getting converted to "&lt;br /&gt;"?
body: <p>I have HTML data stored in database which I wish to display as is. It keeps converting <br /> tags to <code>&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;</code> which is a behavior I do not want. I have tried playing with javascript replace and still I am unable to convert it to regular HTML.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    var venueaddress = msg.result[0].venueaddress;
      var venueaddress2 = venueaddress.replace("[newline]", "&lt;br /&gt;");
  
                  alert(venueaddress2); //shows &lt;br /&gt;
  
  
  $("#venueaddress").text(venueaddress2); //lets now display it on the browser
  
  &lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Venue Address&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span id="venueaddress"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However when it renders on browser, it has the &lt;br /&gt;    and there fore there is no line break.</p>