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Posted by hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Putting HTML code in a <code> tag [SOLVED]

I am trying to make a website that includes an HTML example like this:

<code>
<!—Should be an indent…—><p>Hi</p>
</code>

But when I do that in an HTML document see here it renders as the HTML code. :(

Any thoughts are appreciated

3 Answers

Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

The only real way to do this (without JavaScript) is to replace all of your opening tags with &lt;, like this:

 &lt;p>Hi&lt;/p>

which will be rendered to:

<p>Hi</p>

in browsers.

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Thanks! That works

Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points
Michael Fish
Michael Fish
7,804 Points

Hello,

For some reason this form isn't letting me show you exactly how. You use the less than and greater than markup and put the tag (such as div or p) in the middle. Your answer is on this site: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Thanks!

Joseph Gennitti
Joseph Gennitti
16,870 Points
Joseph Gennitti
Joseph Gennitti
16,870 Points

Ryan is right put <p>Hi</p>

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

ok. Thanks!