Magento: How to fix double ampersand "&" in product attributes in version 1.6

Posted by Stuart Forster on 8th February 2012

Magento v1.6 seems to have an annoying bug where by it double escapes the ampersand in product attributes.

If you have, for example, 'Love, Luck & Happiness' as a value of an attribute the following will occur:

'Love, Luck & Happiness' becomes 'Love, Luck &amp; Happiness'.
This then gets double escaped to become:
'Love, Luck &amp;amp; Happiness'

Here's how to temporarily fix that.

Step 1 - Attribute Controller

File to edit is:

Line 168 of /app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Catalog/Product/AttributeController.php

Comment out the following:

$label = $helperCatalog->escapeHtml($label)

File to edit is:

app/design/frontend/default/yourtemplate/catalog/product/view/attributes.phtml

Replace:

htmlEscape($this->__($_data['label'])) ?>

With

stripTags($this->__($_data['label'])) ?>