From 1f1963012f87d8229718c94e455aebb1d2492bd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "m.lewandowski" <m.lewandowski@cksource.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:43:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Introduced htmlDecode method in CKEDITOR.tools.

---
 core/tools.js | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/tools.js b/core/tools.js
index 883df95e633..ff3c1829497 100644
--- a/core/tools.js
+++ b/core/tools.js
@@ -325,6 +325,18 @@
 			return String( text ).replace( /&/g, '&amp;' ).replace( />/g, '&gt;' ).replace( /</g, '&lt;' );
 		},
 
+		/**
+		 * Decodes HTML entities.
+		 *
+		 *		alert( CKEDITOR.tools.htmlDecode( '&lt;a &amp; b &gt;' ) ); // '<a & b >'
+		 *
+		 * @param {String} The string to be decoded.
+		 * @returns {String} The decoded string.
+		 */
+		htmlDecode: function( text ) {
+			return text.replace( /&amp;/g, '&' ).replace( /&gt;/g, '>' ).replace( /&lt;/g, '<' );
+		},
+
 		/**
 		 * Replaces special HTML characters in HTMLElement attribute with their relative HTML entity values.
 		 *

From 04a3ecb0c2d44344beec01b40350d4c43091d72c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "m.lewandowski" <m.lewandowski@cksource.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:52:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] CKEDITOR.tools encoding functions doc update.

---
 core/tools.js | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/tools.js b/core/tools.js
index ff3c1829497..38349ffc31f 100644
--- a/core/tools.js
+++ b/core/tools.js
@@ -340,8 +340,7 @@
 		/**
 		 * Replaces special HTML characters in HTMLElement attribute with their relative HTML entity values.
 		 *
-		 *		element.setAttribute( 'title', '<a " b >' );
-		 *		alert( CKEDITOR.tools.htmlEncodeAttr( element.getAttribute( 'title' ) ); // '&gt;a &quot; b &lt;'
+		 *		alert( CKEDITOR.tools.htmlEncodeAttr( '<a " b >' ) ); // '&lt;a &quot; b &gt;'
 		 *
 		 * @param {String} The attribute value to be encoded.
 		 * @returns {String} The encoded value.
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@
 		 * {@link #htmlEncodeAttr htmlEncodeAttr} back to their plain character
 		 * representation.
 		 *
-		 *		alert( CKEDITOR.tools.htmlDecodeAttr( '&gt;a &quot; b &lt;' ); // '<a " b >'
+		 *		alert( CKEDITOR.tools.htmlDecodeAttr( '&lt;a &quot; b&gt;' ) ); // '<a " b>'
 		 *
 		 * @param {String} text The text to be decoded.
 		 * @returns {String} The decoded text.

From fc6c79842da62b33642d382ef2f0947bbee3e493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "m.lewandowski" <m.lewandowski@cksource.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:33:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Changelog entry.

---
 CHANGES.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 8e25d8a104c..1847bdca5d1 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ CKEditor 4 Changelog
 
 New Features:
 
+* [#11536](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/11536): Added CKEDITOR.tools.htmlDecode method.
 * [#11377](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/11377): Unify internal representation of empty anchors using fake objects.
 * [#11225](http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/11225): Introduced the [`CKEDITOR.tools.transparentImageData`](http://localhost/cksource/ckeditor-docs/build/#!/api/CKEDITOR.tools-property-transparentImageData) property which contains transparent image data to be used in CSS or as images' source.