An HTML entity is a code such as < or & that represents a character which has special meaning in HTML or is hard to type.
Why it matters
Encoding user text as entities makes a browser display it literally instead of treating it as markup.
An HTML entity is a code such as < or & that represents a character which has special meaning in HTML or is hard to type.
Encoding user text as entities makes a browser display it literally instead of treating it as markup.