Some characters are reserved in HTML.
If you use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your text, the browser might mix them with tags.
Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML.
Common Entities
- — (
—) - ’ (
’) - ” (
”) - ‘ (
‘) - “ (
“) - « (
«) - » (
») - > (
>) - < (
<) - → (
→)