Tags/special characters get converted from HTML to plain text

JavaScript
1

Hi there,

When I get content from the database like in the code below, all tags are converted to plain html. So instead of BOLD TEXT I see </b>BOLD TEXT</b> .
How do I preserve the special characters, lines between paragraphs, etc.?

// Make a call to the server to retrieve all data
function retrieveResults(handleData) {
    return $.ajax({
        url: "forms-processing.php",
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'json',
        data: "projects=true",
        success: function(data) {
        	handleData(data);
        }
    });
}


retrieveResults(function(output){
		$('#content').append(output[1].content));
});
2

Hi,

I would guess that the server is returning escaped HTML.

If you add this to your success callback, what do you see?

success: function(data) {
  console.log(data);
  handleData(data);
}