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Safe Character Escaping
In HTML, certain characters are reserved. For example, you cannot use the less than (`<`) or greater than (`>`) signs within your text, because the browser treats them as tags. To display these characters, you must replace them with "character entities".
Frequently Asked Questions
If you want to display code on a webpage (like showing a <div> tag), you must encode it. Otherwise, the browser will interpret it as actual code and try to render it.
Yes, encoding user input before displaying it is a key defense against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.
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