HTML has special handling for characters like < and > symbols, so it doesn't
work well with those characters where they shouldn't be.
Having spurious characters like those symbols in your text can have some weird
effects - blocks of text not appearing, broken formatting, and generally just
not seeing what you expect to see.
This can all be fixed by 'escaping' those characters. This process involves
scanning the text for those characters, and replacing them with a special
character-code that browsers can interpret as the correct symbol, without
actually embedding that symbol in your text.
For example, the escaped character code for > is >.
Most web platforms have some way of manually encoding and decoding this escaped
format. If not, you can use our online HTML Encoder
and Decoder to do the job.
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