How to escape < and > in YAML/Jekyll?

Question

I'm trying to escape the characters < and >, e.g. in:

description: "some file <x> bla bla"

Note: x should be generated literally. The generated HTML code always generates a <li> and/or <ul>, because of the < and >, which clearly should not happen.

What I tried is:

• Using " (like above)
• Using '
• using escape characters like \
• using unicode form like \x..

Answer 1

HTML escaping should do the trick:

description: "some file <x> bla bla"