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HTML

Posted by ibbhfsmeaf
ibbhfsmeaf
4,568 Points

How can I add html tags as html text?

I want to add img html tags in my p (paragraph) in html, but it breaks my text, assuming I'm trying to actually input an image. But I just want the img to show up as "img" with the less than and greater than signs around it in my paragraph. How can I do this?

For example, in C++ or Java you'd just add something like a forwardslash before a reserved character and it ignores it.

3 Answers

ibbhfsmeaf
ibbhfsmeaf
4,568 Points
ibbhfsmeaf
ibbhfsmeaf
4,568 Points

Thank you both!

Erick Kusnadi
Erick Kusnadi
21,615 Points
Erick Kusnadi
Erick Kusnadi
21,615 Points

You would use an HTML Entity.

You can see here for a list of entities: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

And an example here:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html> <head> <title>HTML Entities</title> </head>

<body>
    <p>Use an HTML entity. &lt; img &gt; </p>
</body>

</html>