Certain character causes django admin to misfunction

[Emad Gasser]

When adding a help_text attribute to a field in models,
eg: "This field can be left blank if <v1> is False" (where v1 is used as a variable placeholder in string format for explanation purposes).

When logging into that table in Django admin panel, all fields after that field with the help_text don't appear, making it impossible to make, alter, or delete objects. After several troubleshooting, I discovered that the '>' character was what caused it to break, which hence suggests that it may have been identified as a closing tag, making everything after that field disappear.

Example shown in the image above ⬆️. As shown the help text suddenly breaks after ':', and nothing appears

[Tim Graham]

This is a usage mistake. Per the documentation for ​Field.help_text:

Note that this value is not HTML-escaped in automatically-generated forms. This lets you include HTML in help_text if you so desire. .. you can use plain text and django.utils.html.escape() to escape any HTML special characters.