Code being automatically replaced

I'm writing some MHRA referencing guidelines in a Bootstrap template. In this referencing style web pages should be enclosed within a set of angled brackets, for example:

Christel Lane and others, The Future of Professionalised Work: UK and Germany Compared (London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, 2003) < www.agf.org.uk/pubs/pdfs/1232web.pdf > [accessed 12 December 2007] (p. 11)

So, I figured that this could simply be written in the Bootstrap page as:

However, if you leave the page, then return to look at the source, you'll find it is has been changed to show:

If you leave and open the source again, it shows:

How can I stop it from changing lt and gt into < and >?

On a related note, in HTML5 you are able to wrap block-level elements with anchor tags. For example:


However, Xerte doesn't appear to like this and will automatically convert such code to:

Hi Neil

The anchor tag issue seems to be a known issue with ckeditor that Xerte uses. You can use this workaround where you surround the div with the link at runtime:
The < > issue also seems to be a problem with ckeditor. You can either make the url a link:
or if you'd prefer not to do this then surround the url with a span tag:
It seems to not like the < being directly next to the url (simply adding a space also works but I guess this isn't ideal if you're showing how the reference should be written)

Thanks for this.

The <span> workaround seems to do the job for now (although, it still converts code to brackets if you use the "HTML Code" page type rather than the "Text" page type).