Grokking HTML
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HTML Special Characters

Type <b> into a paragraph to show the tag to your readers, and the tag disappears from the page. Suppose the recipe site has a short note for readers who are learning HTML:

<!-- Wrong: the browser reads <b> as a tag -->
<p>To make a word bold, put <b> before it.</p>
<p>The recipe continues here.</p>

The browser does not show the text <b>. When it reads the less-than sign followed by a letter, it starts a tag, so it creates a real <b> element. That element is never closed, so everything after it, including the second paragraph, turns bold

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