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Sometimes the less than and greater than keys are important, especially in gaming. Unfortunately markdown doesn't seem to agree. It renders the code <kbd><</kbd> as just <. When it's formatting properly it renders like so: a. See "Building a stairwell down multiple levels" for a real example.

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    Does it act like it's going to work in the preview area? I don't have access to gaming yet, but it seems to be working on webapps. The only site I can't get it to work is here on meta, where it was disabled. Jul 10, 2010 at 1:38
  • It looks like it works on Pro Webmasters also, so I would think it would work on Gaming also.
    – mmyers
    Jul 10, 2010 at 1:46
  • @Bill It works for most characters, just not the < and >. Preview shows the same. Sorry you're not in gaming.
    – C. Ross
    Jul 10, 2010 at 1:53

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You have to use the HTML encoded version, since that's the beginning and ending of a HTML tag, and we support (whitelisted) HTML in posts per https://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help

Like so:

>
<

<kbd>&gt;</kbd>  
<kbd>&lt;</kbd>
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  • That doesn't work either, at least on my gaming post. It still shows up as a < without the key formatting.
    – C. Ross
    Jul 10, 2010 at 11:01
  • @c.ross you had spelling errors in your tags. It is correct and it does work. Jul 10, 2010 at 14:30

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