html - What do lt; and gt; stand for? - Stack Overflow gt; and lt; is a character entity reference for the > and < character in HTML It is not possible to use the less than (<) or greater than (>) signs in your file, because the browser will mix them with tags
html - What character encoding is gt;? - Stack Overflow This might answer your question Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters Characters like gt; and amp; are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
HTML: Should I encode greater than or not? ( gt; gt; ) authors should use " gt; " (ASCII decimal 62) in text instead of ">" so I believe you should encode the greater > sign as gt; (because you should obey the standards)