How to avoid <> in HTML?

Question

I would like to paste into my HTML code a phrase

"<car>"

and I would like that this word "car" will be between <>. In some text will be

"<car>"

and this is not a HTML expression. The problem is that when I put it the parser think that this is the HTML syntax how to avoid it. Is there any expression which need to be between this?

Answer 1

replace < by < and > by >

Live on JSFiddle.

< and > are special characters, more special characters in HTML you can find here.

More about HTML entities you can find here.

Answer 2

You can use the "greater than" and "less than" entities:

<car>

The W3C, the organization responsible for setting web standards, has some pretty good documentation on HTML entities . They consist of an ampersand followed by an entity name followed by a semicolon ( &name; ) or an ampersand followed by a pound sign followed by an entity number followed by a semicolon ( &#number; ). The link I provided has a table of common HTML entities.

Answer 3

use > for > and < for <

$gt;car<

Answer 4

you need to use special character .. To know more about Special Character link here

CODE:

<p>&quot;&lt;car &gt;&quot;</p>

OUTPUT:

 "<car>"

Answer 5

< = < less than

> = > greater than

The same applies for XML too. Take a look here, special characters for HTML .

Answer 6

If you really want LESS THAN SIGN “<” to appear visibly in page content, write it as & , so that it will not be treated as starting a tag. Ref.: 5.3.2 Character entity references in HTML 4.01.

So you would write

<car>

If you like, you can write “>” as > for symmetry, but there is no need to.

But if you really want to put something in angle brackets, eg using a mathematical notation, rather than a markup notation (as in HTML and XML), consider using U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET “⟨” and U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET “⟩”. They cause no problems to HTML markup, as they are not markup-significant. If you don't know how to type them in your authoring environment, you can use character references for them:

⟨car⟩

This would result in ⟨car⟩, though as always with less common special characters, you would need to consider character (font) problems .