Entities in an Entry Title for Movable Type 5

MT5 tries its damnedest to eliminate tags and entities from an entry title. Hoverer it does tolerate numeric character entnties. To include an < sign for example use: &#60; — to include an > sign use: &#62;.

Things that don't work as expected are:

  • A plain < sign - it is stripped when partnered with a > sign. The HTML tag thus formed is removed.
  • An entity like &lt; - it is converted to &amp;lt; as the user sees it.

An example can be found in this earlier blog entry.