When a heading includes angle brackets, the generated text in the TOC does not include character entities (< and >), but actual angle brackets, which turn it into an actual HTML tag.

For example, I have this as a heading:

<video> tag

In the TOC, this appears as an actual video tag. (I can't type that here, so here's an image a link to an image.)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagipolley/27949436364/

Which kinda screws up the TOC :)

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martinpolley created an issue. See original summary.

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will_c commented

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robert castelo commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Put the angle brackets in your content as a HTML characters.

TOC Node will not convert angle brackets because it's sometimes useful to add HTML tags like span around words of a title and we don't want the showing up in the TOC.

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laurelstreng commented

So i've actually been trying to use HTML entities to show header tags, and TOC Node is not converting them. Instead of showing <h2> in the TOC, it's actually creating a header 2 html tag.

My source code is:
<h2>Header Tags &lt;h2&gt; -- &lt;h6&gt; OR XML &lt;fnord&gt;thruth&lt;/fnord&gt;&nbsp; Empty &lt;&gt;&nbsp;Finally, one angle &lt;</h2>

And what I get from TOC is:
<span class="toc-number">2</span> <span class="toc-text">Header Tags <h2> -- </h2></span></a><h6><a href="/wiki/responsive-web-test-case-5-header-tags#toc-3"> OR XML <fnord>thruth</fnord>&nbsp; Empty &lt;&gt;&nbsp;Finally, one angle &lt;</a></h6>

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laurelstreng commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active