Using Entity Names
Friday, October 10th, 2008Some characters have special meaning in HTML documents. When you want to use these characters in your text, you can use their “entity names” to prevent browsers from misinterpreting them. For example, the lesser-than and greater-than signs (<, >) are used to form tags in HTML code. Using the entity names < and > instead of < and > prevents browsers from interpreting the characters as tag brackets.
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