Reserved Characters and HTML Entities
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As explained in Chapter 3, some special characters are not recognized in the content part of the HTML element. Those characters are called reserved characters.
An HTML entity is a special code used to represent a reserved character or special character that may not be displayed properly in the browser. HTML entities are sometimes called escape characters in the context of avoiding reserved characters.
Here is a list of key reserved characters and HTML entities for their replacement.
- < (less than) :
<
- > (greater than) :
>
- &</
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