html - What do lt; and gt; stand for? - Stack Overflow gt; and lt; is a character entity reference for the > and < character in HTML It is not possible to use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your file, because the browser will mix them with tags for these difficulties you can use entity names( gt;) and entity numbers( #60;)
html - What character encoding is gt;? - Stack Overflow In HTML, you can write the greater than sign ">" as gt; and the less than symbol "<" as lt; Is this encoding defined by the HTML encoding or some standard like ISO, UTF-xxx, BaseXXX