Quick urgent simple HTML question

I am submitting a project proposal to an online submission.
There are several parts where we have to enter text for the proposal, abstract etc.
In most of the parts, I have formatted using simple
<b>/</b> type tags. But in one part, the
< and > are getting converted to &lt;&gt.
I cannot imagine why this is happening only for one part.

Is there any simple way to get around it?
Are the < and > in <pre> tags?
No, the only uses of > and < I am using are in
1
2
3
<b>/</b>
<ol>/</ol>
<li>/</li>
Are you using pure HTML or jquery or something with it? I know nothing about web programming as it bores the hell out of me, but this might help.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6784560/how-to-replace-lt-with-and-gt-with-using-jquery
Only html, and only the tags I mentioned. I know nothing about web programming either, I am just using these tags to formal a project proposal.
This is weird. From what I'm reading, it should only go the other way (&lt;&gt to <b>/</b>).

Do you think it has to do with the / symbol in there? Have you tried replacing that with an alphabetic character and seeing what happens?
I dont think so, even without the / the same behavior.
Anyway, I submitted the proposal, on the summary page, everything was formatted! Weird.
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