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Special characters must be escaped.

Level: Error

Config value

Section titled “Config value”
  • true: enable rule
  • false: disable rule

The following patterns are not considered violations

Section titled “The following patterns are not considered violations”
<span>aaa&gt;bbb&lt;ccc</span>
<span>Steinway &amp; Sons, Q&amp;A</span>
<span>Steinway & Sons, Q&A</span>

The following pattern is considered a rule violation:

Section titled “The following pattern is considered a rule violation:”
<span>aaa>bbb<ccc</span>

Why this rule is important

Section titled “Why this rule is important”

Special HTML characters like <, >, and & must be escaped to prevent them from being interpreted as HTML tags or entities. This avoids rendering issues and potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.