special characters must be escaped - but what does that mean exactly?

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Hi,I am working in codeview. The text I am formatting happens to be scientific info that includes things like this:  (incidence <2%) are nausea,......OK, so the '<' causes me to get the error message: special characters must be escaped, and so that text won't render on the page properly.What do I need to do for it to view this as readable text and not code?Does escape mean backslash? - taking a guess... so it would be /<2% in my code?Thank you.

Jon Fritz · Accepted Answer

Yep, there are a few different codes you can use to make greater-than and less-than symbols in your text.&gt; and &lt; are the shortest, and what Design View will write into your code automatically.

Jon Fritz · Answer

If you're using < and > in equations within html text, use the html entities < and > in their place.

Using < and > in html code is specifically for starting and ending tags. If you type either from within Design View, DW will replace them automatically with their entity code. Code View doesn't understand that though and thinks you're using them intentionally, then gets confused when it doesn't see them being used for tags.

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