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

Code:
        For y As Int16 = 0 To intBuddyList - 1
            strBuddyListHTML = strBuddyListHTML & strBuddyList(y) & "<br />"
        Next
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:
buddy1&lt;br /&gt;buddy2&lt;br /&gt;buddy3&lt;br /&gt;buddy4&lt;br /&gt;tbuddy5&lt;br /&gt;tbuddy6&lt;br /&gt;
Is there a way to preserve the brackets in the HTML tags?