How can escaping characters in PHP prevent issues with echoing HTML content?

When echoing HTML content in PHP, special characters like quotes or angle brackets can disrupt the HTML structure and cause rendering issues. To prevent this, we can escape these characters using functions like htmlspecialchars() or htmlentities(). This will ensure that the HTML content is displayed correctly without interfering with the markup. 

<?php
$html_content = "<h1>Hello, World!</h1>";
echo htmlspecialchars($html_content);
?>

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