Others have noted the correct answer, but have not clearly explained the all-important reason:
<
stands for the <
sign. Just remember: lt == less than>
stands for the >
Just remember: gt == greater than<
and >
characters in HTML?>
and <
characters are ‘reserved’ characters in HTML.<
and >
are used to denote the starting and ending of different elements: e.g. <h1>
and not for the displaying of the greater than or less than symbols. But what if you wanted to actually display those symbols? You would simply use <
and >
and the browser will know exactly how to display it.