Saving symbols in a [code] tag while in "visual" edit mode mangles the symbols

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  bigjosh2 · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 9:38 pm

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  I am using the [code][/code] tags to display code snippets inside my posts and I have noticed that the editor will convert symbols like a greater-than sign that are inside the code tag into mangled HTML-ish if I save while in “visual” mode. Switching back to “text” mode and saving again seems to restore the symbols.

  Any way to avoid this? A couple of times I have published posts with the mangled symbols in them.

  Thanks!

  -josh

  For example, on a post that I was editing today, I had the following snippet…

  [code lang="bash" light="true"]neouart <sos.nua[/code]

  …which looked fine even when viewing a preview of the page. At some point during editing , however, it was changed and started showing in the preview as…

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Sep 2, 2014 at 11:24 pm

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  Hi Josh,

  Please insert all code in the Text Editor as it can create issues as seen when entered in the Visual Editor.

  Does this happen sometimes even when you are in the Text Editor?

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!