title: Character Escape in HTML
body: <p>Often in coding languages, there is an escape character which either </p>
  
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  <li><p>makes the next character interpreted literally or </p></li>
  <li><p>makes the next character interpreted as code within a string.</p></li>
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  <p>Is there such an escape character in HTML, or do I need Javascript to do so?
  Searching both the internet and stackoverflow yielded no results.</p>