? Question about HTML

Melissa Silvestre silvest at umslvma.umsl.edu
Wed Oct 4 11:27:23 EDT 1995


When writing a web page, use &lt and &gt (think "less than" and
"greater than") to put < and > inside the text of the page.

This reply cc'd the individual's address so he should have gotten
it, but I thought others on the list might be unaware of this info.

>I intend to join this listserv, but I have a question I would like to
>present.
>
>How does one use the "<" or ">" characters in the text of a Web page.  I
>have not tried it in Netscape yet, but in Lynx, the browser thinks that you
>are trying to construct a tag and ignores text around it.
>
>Until I subscribe, please send reply to cornwed at mail.firn.edu
>
>Thanks.
>
>Doug Cornwell
>
>
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