Right angle bracket in HTML

Solution 1:

The character “>” can be used as such as data character in any version of HTML, both in element content and in an attribute value. This follows from the lack of any statement to the contrary in the specifications.

It is often routinely escaped as >, which is valid but not required for any formal or technical reason. It is used partly because people assume it is needed the same way as the “<” character needs to be escaped, partly for symmetry: writing, say, <code> may look more symmetric than <code>.

The character “>” is the GREATER THAN character. It is used in many contexts, like HTML markup, as a delimiter of a kind, in a bracket-like manner, but the real angle brackets, as used in some mathematical notations, are rather different, such as “⟩” U+27E9. If you need to include angle brackets in an HTML document, you have some serious issues to consider, but they relate to fonts (and semantics), not to any potential clash with markup-significant characters.

Solution 2:

Right angle brackets are legal within a <pre> tag or as text within an element.

There is no ambiguity when using them in this manner and parsers have no issue with "understanding" them.

Personally, I just escape these whenever I need to use them, just to match left angle brackets...