? Question about HTML

[Elizabeth A. Dupuis]

>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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Doug,

The tags for this are called Special Characters.  Those specific tags are:
&lt; the escape sequence for <
&gt; the escape sequence for >

You can find more at: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/html-primer.html#A1.5.3

Best,
Beth


Elizabeth A. Dupuis
Reference and Electronic Information Services Librarian
Undergraduate Library
The University of Texas at Austin

(512) 471-5691
beth at mail.utexas.edu