wp_editor returning invalid html

Question

I am using wp_editor in my plugin.

It is displayed on the page as:

<?php wp_editor(get_option('edpp_card_design'), 'edpp_card_design', array(
  'textarea_name' => 'edpp[card_design]'
)); ?>

When I post the form it is returning invalid HTML, doing a print_r on the posted data returns something that looks like this:

<span style="\&quot;color:" #ff0000;\"=""><strong>Some Test School</strong></span>

Viewing it Text in the editor has it right at

<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Some Test School</strong></span>

I don't get why this is happening, am I missing something? Is wp_editor configured wrong here or should I be running the output through a function before I use it?

Answer 1

Turns out that the output from wp_editor is safe to save to a database. It needs passing through stripslashes() before echoing into HTML.