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Not sure how to phrase it, but my example should make plenty of sense.

I make the title of a story:
Him & Her

When I fetch the title I get:

Him & Her

How do I get back the raw title: Him & Her

Is there a native EE way to do that?  If not, if anyone knows a plugin off-hand, that’d be great.

Hi VodkaFish,

Could you show us the template code you’re using to display your Channel Entry title?

Sure:

{exp:channel:entries limit="5" rdf="off" disable="member_data" channel="mychannel" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination" backspace="1"}
{value: "{comment_url_title_auto_path}", text: "{title}"},{/exp:channel:entries}

Template type: javascript

I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with this part of your template code:

{value: "{comment_url_title_auto_path}", text: "{title}"}

Is that coming from an add-on you’re using?

Do you get different results output to your template if you just use

{title}

within your Channel Entries tags instead?

I don’t get different results. 

That’s not from an add-on, it’s just part of a javascript function.

The output is fine (including the {} when they should be there) outside of me needing to not have the html entities in there, just the raw characters.

& is still &

etc

Ah, I see now. This is a JavaScript template. My apologies for missing that the first time around.

I do believe this is expected behavior, for EE to convert entities like this. I would recommend using an add-on like PHPStringFun to allow you access to PHP string functions like html_entity_decode() that will keep the ampersand from being displayed as an entity.

Ah, ok.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I’ll use that or straight PHP.

Glad Kevin was able to help. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions