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It seems that HTML tags in titles are swallowed instead of escaped to HTML entities.
 
 
Clarification: I do not mean allowing HTML in TITLE tags, but converting < and > into their respective HTML entities &lt; and gt;. At the moment, if you type in Hello <World>, the <World> part will be completely swallowed and the result will be Hello. The end result, in my opinion, should be Hello &lt;World&gt; I do not think any real HTML should be allowed in titles.
 
 
 
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Hmm, tags in in titles - not supported yet. Should we? - I'm not sure.
 
I know Mathoverflow people like to insert equations into titles - but they do it using a non-html trick, as far as I know.
 
If we do - it would have to be a limited set of tags - you wouldn' want to have <div> <iframe> <table> and stuff like that.
 
What tags to you want to allow in title?
 
edit oh, I see what you mean - would it make sense to have input validation just reject titles with html tags rather than silently drop them? We sure can convert tags to entities - but the text would look weird an somebody might think that the site is broken after looking at &lt;b&gt
 
edit 2 ok convinced me - it's a bug dammit :)!
 
edit 3 fixed in the repository - will deploy tomorrow
 
 
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 @Evgeny check out my update.
      
 
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 @Evgeny mm, I think the entities could be displayed as `<` `>` in the actual title, they just would have to be encoded internally so they're not rendered.
      
 
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 @Pekka hey, you're right and I'm slow! Of course - why not be able to ask questions about html tags.
      
 
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        I'll take care of this soon.
      
 
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 @Evgeny we need those shiny red "status-xxx" badges from meta.stackoverflow.com! :)
      
 
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