title: How To Replace &lt; with < and &gt; with > using jquery
body: <p>I have a page that is part of a backend CRM admin panel. On that page the HTML output comes from some PHP functions that I can't access. And that HTML automatically changes <code>&lt;</code> and <code>&gt;</code> into HTML encoded characters.</p>
  
  <p>So there is a div that contains html tags like <code>&lt;br /&gt;</code> that is converted into <code>&amp;lt;b /&amp;gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>So I need to change it back to the HTML characters using only jQuery:</p>
  
  <p><code>&amp;lt;</code> to <code>&lt;</code><br>
  <code>&amp;gt;</code> to <code>&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>Is there a jQuery script I can use to replace those special characters with the corresponding symbols? This will mean my HTML tags will actually work and the HTML will being displayed properly on the screen?</p>
  
  <p>I've tried <code>removewith()</code> but i can't make it work.</p>
  
  <p>ADDED:
  The div that im trying to modify is this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div style="font-size: 11px; width: 90%; font-family: Tahoma;" id="cotiz"&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Valuación&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; de InfoAuto: 35.500,00&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; 
  Cotización Seleccionada: Ninguna&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; 
  Allianz, Responsabilidad Civil: $205,25&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt; 
  Allianz, Terceros Completos: $278,85 &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>