PRB: HTML Stops Displaying When a '<' Is Within <PRE> Tags

MORE INFORMATION

Text placed within a preformatted section of HTML using <PRE> is usually displayed as-is, without any formatting. If the Web page that contains this preformatted text contains a less-than symbol (<) and the page is displayed in Internet Explorer 3.0x, Internet Explorer stops displaying the HTML on the Web page when it reaches the "<". Any HTML that is after the "<" is not displayed, even if it is outside of the preformatted section.

For example, in Internet Exlorer 3.0x, the HTML display stops at the "<":

<HTML>
   <BODY>
      <PRE>
         Some preformatted text
         x < y
      </PRE>
      This text will not be displayed
   </BODY>
</HTML>
				

Workaround

There are two workarounds to this problem. Use <XMP> instead of <PRE>. Please note that <XMP> is considered obsolete by the W3C and may not be supported in future versions of Internet Explorer:

<HTML>
   <BODY>
      <XMP>
         Some preformatted text
         x < y
      </XMP>
      This text will be displayed
   </BODY>
</HTML>
				

Or use &lt instead of "<".

<HTML>
   <BODY>
      <PRE>
         Some preformatted text
         x &lt y
      </PRE>
      This text will be displayed
   </BODY>
</HTML>