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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Creating Lists

Posted by Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
570 Points

Can you write html text in html?

For example what if someone wanted to write some text that contained "<h1>" maybe for explaining how to program in HTML

2 Answers

Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points
Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points

Replace the < character with &lt; Replace the > character with &gt;

Masih Abjadi
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Masih Abjadi
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Masih Abjadi
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Masih Abjadi
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 26,328 Points

You should escape HTML codes by using HTML Entities. for example in your case it should be like this:

&lt;h1&gt;

Check this out for list of HTML Entities. https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
570 Points

That sounds very confusing