HTML Entities in code type tags

This probably isn't an urgent thing, but it would be a nice to have.

When posting code samples in code tags can html entities not be
translated, for example & quot ; shows as & quot ; rather than "

We try several methods to bypass html entities, but by doing that it will open several security issues.

vBulletin decode all the html entities to determine if some one trying to pass special JavaScript to steal users cookies information ...etc.

So its automatically decode all the html entities and filter them out, if we remove this functionality, our forums will be very vulnerable for these kind of hacker attacks.

Therefore currently we do not see any direct way to keep html entities inside user posts.

If you were to replace all ampersands [&] with "&", you should
be able to write "&quote;".

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Hold on, that's come out fine. What's the problem here?

Try this


& q u o t e ; => & q u o t ;

Gotcha.

My idea does work though - change ampersands into numeric
entities; notice my second code box above.

& becomes &#38;