HTML tags in bloginfo description

Question

I'm trying to set some <span> tags in the bloginfo description. So I put this in the blog description field:

<span class="name">Archive | Navarro Vives</span> <span>is a point of reference</span> <span>for those who wish to</span> <span>find out more about the life and work of Josep Navarro Vives.</span>

bloginfo('description') returns this string:

<span class="name">Archive | Navarro Vives</span> <span>is a point of reference</span> <span>for those who wish to</span> <span>find out more about the life and work of Josep Navarro Vives.</span>

And it is printed in the browser as <span class="name">Archive | Navarro...etc (with escaped tags).

I tried to:

$description = bloginfo('description');
echo html_entity_decode($description);

but it returns exactly the same as bloginfo('description').

How can I unescape these <span> tags?

Answer 1

I found the answer. just replace

bloginfo('description')

by get_bloginfo('description')

So

echo html_entity_decode(get_bloginfo('description'))

Works as expected.