const.id

html-entity

<

&lt;

&lt;

HTML named character reference &lt; maps to U+003C.

Mapping

Named reference
&lt;
Code point(s)
U+003C
Decimal
60
Characters
<

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (&#x3C;) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Unicode

U+003C

ASCII

0x3C

Same character

Other entities

Entities that produce this code point

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02