What do lt and gt stand for

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I know that the entities  amp lt  and  amp gt  are used for  lt  and  gt   but I am curious what these names stand for   Does  amp lt  stand for something like  Left tag  or is it just a code

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They re used to explicitly define less than and greater than symbols  If one wanted to type out  lt html gt  and not have it be a tag in the HTML  one would use them  An alternate way is to wrap the  lt code gt  element around code to not run into that    They can also be used to present mathematical operators    lt  ENTITY lt      CDATA   amp  60     -- less-than sign  U 003C ISOnum -- gt   lt  ENTITY gt      CDATA   amp  62     -- greater-than sign  U 003E ISOnum -- gt    http   www w3 org TR html4 sgml entities html

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Others have noted the correct answer  but have not clearly explained the all-important reason   why do we need this   What do  lt  and  gt  stand for    amp lt  stands for the   lt   sign  Just remember  lt    less than  amp gt  stands for the  gt  Just remember  gt    greater than  Why can   t we simply use the  lt  and  gt  characters in HTML   This is because the  gt  and  lt  characters are    reserved    characters in HTML  HTML is a mark up language  The  lt  and  gt  are used to denote the starting and ending of different elements  e g   lt h1 gt  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  amp lt  and  amp gt  and the browser will know exactly how to display it

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in rails    amp lt     this is     lt     amp gt    this is      gt

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amp lt  stands for the less-than sign    lt   amp gt  stands for the greater-than sign    gt   amp le  stands for the less-than or equals sign      amp ge  stands for the greater-than or equals sign

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amp lt  stands for lesser than   lt   symbol and  the  amp gt  sign stands for greater than   gt   symbol   For more information on HTML Entities  visit this link    https   www w3schools com HTML html entities asp

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amp lt   less than  lt    amp gt   greater than  gt

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amp lt  Less than   lt    amp gt  Greater than   gt

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In HTML  the less-than sign is used at the beginning of tags   if you use this bracket   lt test1 gt   in content  your bracket content will be unvisible  html renderer is assuming it as a html tag  changing chars with it s ASCI numbers prevents the issue   with html friendly name      amp lt test1 amp gt     or with asci number     amp  60 test1 amp  62    or comple asci    amp  60  amp  116  amp  101  amp  115  amp  116  amp  49  amp  62    result    60   116   101   115   116   49   62   asci referance  https   www w3schools com charsets ref html ascii asp

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amp gt  and  amp lt  is a character entity reference for the  gt  and  lt  character in HTML   It is not possible to use the less than   lt   or greater than     signs in your file  because the browser will mix them with tags   for these difficulties you can use entity names  amp gt   and entity numbers  amp  60

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amp lt      lesser-than     lt   amp gt     greater-than     gt

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