TYPO3 Core

Sorry for the confusion. The Bugtracker rendered my Tag, so the explanation is misleading.
The Problem is, that
<span> becomes

<span >

Hi!

Where do you set htmlSpecialChars? Can you please also provide the TS for the menu around?
Thanks.

I need the htmlSpecialChars to set a span tag within my menu

Here is the TS-Code:

page.includeLibs.tmenu_layers = media/scripts/tmenu_layers.php
lib.mainmenu = HMENU
lib.mainmenu {
  wrap = <div id="mainMenu">|</div>
  special = directory
  special.value = 1
  entryLevel = 1
  1 = TMENU_LAYERS
  1 {
    wrap = <ul class="nav">|</ul>
    layerStyle = position:absolute;VISIBILITY:hidden;width:100%;margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow:hidden;

    displayActiveOnLoad = 1
    displayActiveOnLoad.onlyOnLoad = 0

    dontHideOnMouseUp = 1
    hideMenuWhenNotOver = 50
    hideMenuTimer = 2000

    lockPosition = x
    blankStrEqFalse = 1

    relativeToParentLayer = 1
    relativeToTriggerItem = 0

    topOffset    = 171
    leftOffset    = 0

    xPosOffset = 0

    freezeMouseover = 1
    expAll = 1

    NO {
     allWrap = <li>|</li>
     stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
     stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 1
     ATagParams = class=mainmenu

    }
    ACT < .NO
    ACT = 1
    ACT {
     ATagParams = class=mainmenuActive
    }
    RO < .ACT
    RO {
      freezeMouseover = 1
      ATagParams = class=mainmenuActive
    }
  }
  2 = TMENU_LAYERS
  2 {
    wrap = <div class="subMenu"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr>|</tr></table></div>
    layerStyle = position:absolute;VISIBILITY:hidden;

    relativeToParentLayer = 1

    relativeToTriggerItem = 1

    relativeToTriggerItem.addHeight = 1
    displayActiveOnLoad = 0
    displayActiveOnLoad.onlyOnLoad = 0

    topOffset    = 2

    dontHideOnMouseUp = 0
    hideMenuWhenNotOver = 50
    hideMenuTimer = 1000
    freezeMouseover = 0
    freezeMouseover.alwaysKeep = 0

    setFixedWidth = 0

    expAll = 1
    NO {
      allWrap = <td>|</td>
       stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
       stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 1
       ATagParams = class=submenuA
    }

    ACT < .NO
    ACT = 1
    ACT {
     ATagParams = class=submenuActive
    }
    RO < .ACT
    RO {
      ATagParams = class=submenuActive
    }

  }
  3 < .2
  3 {
    wrap = <div class="subsubMenu"><ul class="nav3">|</ul></div>
    layerStyle = position:absolute;VISIBILITY:hidden;width: auto;
    NO {
      stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 0
      stdWrap.cObject = COA
      stdWrap.cObject {
        5 =  TEXT
        5 {
          field = subtitle
          htmlSpecialChars = 0
          wrap = <span style="font-weight:bold;display:block;float:left;">|</span>&nbsp;-&nbsp;
          if.isTrue.data = field:subtitle
        }
        10 = TEXT
        10 {
          #wrap = <span style="padding:5px 0;">|</span>
          data = field:title
        }
      }
      allWrap = <li>|</li> 
       stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 0
       stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars.preserveEntities = 0
       ATagParams = class=subsubmenuA
    }

    ACT < .NO
    ACT = 1
    ACT {
     ATagParams = class=subsubmenuActive
    }
    RO < .ACT
    RO {
      ATagParams = class=subsubmenuActive
    }
  }
}