FCKeditor: displays the formating characters along with text - format

have a form that uses FCKeditor. I can input with formatting, but when I bring back what I put in FCKeditor it also displays the raw html format syntax. I.E. <p><p>&
Question: is there a setting I'm missing that uses the formatting to format the text instead of displaying the formatting syntax along with the text?
thanks
Randy

i dont know whether you are using ASP.net C# or not but if yes then first import
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using FredCK.FCKeditorV2;
these two things and then where you are retrieving your value from fckeditor then use
string fckContent = Regex.Replace(FCKEditorID.value, #"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty);

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I have just installed CK Editor onto a form that submits data to a database, when I want to use an apostrophe ' It is displaying as & #39; on my web page instead.
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What's happening is that somewhere along the line, CKEditor (or maybe another part of the system) is going through and converting characters that might potentially cause problems (due to having special meaning in HTML) into their HTML entity representations.
This is normal behaviour and if you don't need to do any string manipulation inside your database you can happily leave it as is for that stage. Indeed you can have them in along with normal HTML text and it should render just fine.
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Knockout set initial value of an input field where html is allowed

I have two input fields first name and last name.
Application was running really well.
Suddenly someone came in from Mars and input something like this in those input fields
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)!
for both first name and last name. Now don't ask me why he did this cause in Mars this is very common. You can try it on this fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/
This text then went into my database and now when i retrieve it it came back like this
*(~'##~>?<+!""*%$)
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The above fiddle is kind of that edit page which shows him old value at bottom and two fields at top. He does not know html so he thought we have changed his name in input fields however I need to know
When passing text to knockout to give initial value to an input field is it possible to tell it that consider this text as html so it renders properly in input field
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Anyone with a solution before he leaves our planet. This can change alien life on our planet.
Update
If i go into this field and paste (~'##~>?<+!""*%$)" binding works fine and you can copy this and paste it into fiddle to see that. However its not taking that value from Javascript variable to knockout expects it to be a string and html special characters are not shown properly in input field.
We have done another test without Knockout and this text does get rendered within the field when you try to edit it its fine.
We have updated JSfiddle to work without JQuery and its the same result if you store it in a js variable and give not value to input field
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/3/
If we assign value to input field and just use jQuery to populate fullname then it works
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/4/
This last fiddle is a working example and we want Knockout to do what JQuery is doing.
I think the question then comes to how can this text be stored in javascript variable and placed into input field as html text so special characters appear unescaped. You can try unescape on jsfiddle that did not work for us.
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Any time you see the html: binding used, warning bells should go off in your head and you should VERY carefully to check to ensure that there's NO possibility of raw, unexamined user input making it into the string that gets displayed.
Ok here is what i did at the end
http://jsfiddle.net/farrukhsubhani/3RjRF/7/
I have done following:
I have added value attribute to input field and placed the input text as it came from server into it. Because I am using TextBoxFor in MVC it did that for me.
Before I apply knockout binding I have picked this value up using $('#kfname') and passed it to the actual binding so it used the value that came from server. Previously it was passed like (#Model.fname,#Model.lname)
I think what this did was allowed jQuery to pick up the value and assign it to binding instead of variable
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