< character in shortcode content

  • My blog is all about coding and I created a shortcode to display code in a certain format.
    The problem is when I use the character ‘<‘ (as in ‘less than’) inside the shortcode content, it seems to be interpret it as html tag < and totally messes up my shortcode.

    I read online that this was introduced in WordPress with do_shortcodes_in_html_tags which parses the content for HTML tags.

    Is there a way to avoid this feature and display the < character as is in the shortcode content?

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by deepthinking.
    • This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by deepthinking.
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