# Items in angle brackets do not appear

**URL:** <https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250>\
**Category:** What's Wrong?\
**Created:** [April 20, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250 "2026-04-20T17:20:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/sperman/32/59_2.png) [@SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/SPerman)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250/1 "2026-04-20T17:20:21Z")

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What sort of automatic formatting is done for text inside of \< . and \> symbols.

It disappears as soon as I close the brackets.

(I tried recording a video, but Screen to GIF did not record the text being typed.)

 ![image](https://forum.cadmunity.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f8e44a77602582bf9720433778aa40e79ec71d16.png)

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**Author:** ![JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/jimsculley/32/5190_2.png) [@JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/JimSculley)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250/2 "2026-04-20T17:35:06Z")

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\\<Use back slashes\\>

Angle brackets denote HTML. You have to escape them with back slashes. Or you can do stuff like embed HTML in your post:

```html
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<h2>Hello World</h2>
<h3>Hello World</h3>
<h4>Hello World</h4>

```

# Hello World

## Hello World

### Hello World

#### Hello World

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**Author:** ![SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/sperman/32/59_2.png) [@SPerman](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/SPerman)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250/3 "2026-04-20T17:41:30Z")

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What if one wants to display text inside a set of brackets? Is that possible?

“\<hw-threadcallout”\>"

This is as close as I can get.

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**Author:** ![JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/jimsculley/32/5190_2.png) [@JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/JimSculley)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/items-in-angle-brackets-do-not-appear/6250/4 "2026-04-20T17:42:30Z")

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`\<This is some text inside angle brackets\>`

\<This is some text inside angle brackets\>

Or just use three backticks on each side of an entire text block and it will leave the formatting as is:

```auto
<"Hello World">
<"Hello World">
<"Hello World">
<"Hello World">
<"Hello World">

```