Problem displaying certain text from a form on to the browser

Hi, On my form, I have a text area. I was doing some testing and on one line, I entered the following: <test line> When I looked at the results pages sent to the browser, that line was missing. I think that the "<" character is the culprit. I've tried stripslashes() and htmlentities() but I cannot get that line to appear on the browser. Any ideas? Thanks, Don