Online Html Encoder

I have a page that is part of a backend CRM admin panel. On that page the HTML output comes from some PHP functions that I can't access. And that HTML automatically changes < and > into HTML encoded characters.

So there is a div that contains html tags like <br /> that is converted into <b />

So I need to change it back to the HTML characters using only jQuery:

< to <
&gt; to >

Is there a jQuery script I can use to replace those special characters with the corresponding symbols? This will mean my HTML tags will actually work and the HTML will being displayed properly on the screen?

I've tried removewith() but i can't make it work.

ADDED:The div that im trying to modify is this

<div style="font-size: 11px; width: 90%; font-family: Tahoma;" id="cotiz">&lt;strong&gt;Valuación&lt;/strong&gt; de InfoAuto: 35.500,00&lt;br /&gt; Cotización Seleccionada: Ninguna&lt;br /&gt; Allianz, Responsabilidad Civil: $205,25&lt;br /&gt; Allianz, Terceros Completos: $278,85 </div>

I am trying to render an apostrophe as ' ' ', but instead on the interface, it was being rendered as "&#39"; My code to render apostrophe looks like this:

 <% @scheduled_events.each do |event| %>     title  : '<%= event.title %>',     <% end %>

event.title on the terminal level, it's something like "Brian's". Intead, it was rendered as Brian"&#39"s;

Every time a user posts something containing < or > in a page in my web application, I get this exception thrown.

I don't want to go into the discussion about the smartness of throwing an exception or crashing an entire web application because somebody entered a character in a text box, but I am looking for an elegant way to handle this.

Trapping the exception and showing

An error has occurred please go back and re-type your entire form again, but this time please do not use <

doesn't seem professional enough to me.

Disabling post validation (validateRequest="false") will definitely avoid this error, but it will leave the page vulnerable to a number of attacks.

Ideally: When a post back occurs containing HTML restricted characters, that posted value in the Form collection will be automatically HTML encoded.So the .Text property of my text-box will be something & lt; html & gt;

Is there a way I can do this from a handler?

I have HTML code emitted by FCKEditor stored in a database and would like to display (well render) it onto a view. So, for instance, something stored as:

<>pre<>This is some sample text<>pre</&gt

Will be displayed to the user as:

This is some sample text

(With the appropriate style for pre-formatted-text)

The view already has the required string to display from ViewData, I'm just not sure what the best way to show it to the user is.

I created this small little maintenance script to unescape HTML entities.

use HTML::Entities;use warnings;while ( <> ) {    decode_entities($_);}

The problem is, it produces no output when I pipe it through bash like so,

echo ""a"" | perl ../../tmp.pl