Unable to use triangle brackets in data-placeholder text

[fedulovivan]

initializing chosen with following markup

<select data-placeholder="&lt;None&gt;">
<option></option>
<option value=1>Value 1</option>
</select>

leads to empty widget instead of displaying text '<None>' it it

this reproduces after upgrading to version 1.4.2 from 1.3.0

[fedulovivan]

Any comments?

[avinash2]

I'm having a similar issue when the options contain angular brackets or even the HTML entities for them. For example:

<option>Mr. Smith &lt; [email protected]&gt;</option>

will only get submitted as:

Mr. Smith 

The whole text wrapped with "<" & ">" or "<" and ">" gets swallowed somehow. Also, when the options contain "<" & ">" instead of entities, the values wrapped between "<" and ">" aren't even displayed on the front end.

Please help! (Using Chosen ver. 1.4.2)

Thanks!