<br /> tag not being rendered correctly.

I'm building an application that outputs a list of usernames to an HTML document. I'm using this to generate a string:

Code:

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        For y As Int16 = 0 To intBuddyList - 1
            strBuddyListHTML = strBuddyListHTML & strBuddyList(y) & "<br />"
        Next

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The resulting string is then put into an HTML document. The problem is, when I load the document, the brackets are displayed literally. When I view the source, I see this:

Code:

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buddy1<br />buddy2<br />buddy3<br />buddy4<br />tbuddy5<br />tbuddy6<br />

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Is there a way to preserve the brackets in the HTML tags?

It's an educated guess but try this:

Code:

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strBuddyListHTML = strBuddyListHTML & strBuddyList(y) & "<<br />>"

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