How do I stop HTML entities in a custom meta box from being un-htmlentitied?

If I’m allowed to answer my own question here: I found a way to stop the conversion of my html entities back to characters by using <?php esc_textarea( $text ) ?>, as detailed by the codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_textarea. Not sure if this is the right way of doing it, but its working. My (snipped) metabox … Read more