How to show html code in examples

i've started a site which teaches html and i want to display html code in my examples but they won't show up, i tried using the <pre> tags but they don't work. the code examples i want to show is
the doctype the html and title tags. is it the code i want to show causing the <pre> tags not to work? thanks alot for the help

Instead of the less than / greater than symbols <> use the ASCII code: &lt; for < and &gt; for >

nope that does not work . that just shows the <pre> tags in the document. thanks anyways

please post your code in the code tags, i cant tell if you posted code or not, your text looks different in someplace and im guessing there is code there thanks.

and by the way you use back slash to not exicute a tag

not

THe &lt; and &gt; should work. In fact I just use the &lt; so for my website if I want to show the example code for a paragraph:



Then wrap the whole lot in <pre></pre> tags, so the whole thing looks like this:



SpooF, I don't think the backslash is an escape character in html, I just tried it ant it just shows as plain text, it doesn't affect the tag.


//edit now i see what you are getting at, the <pre>'s you posted don't show up because you did not dissable html in the post.

What you need to do is use the pre tags as normal, but then use the &lt; for the example code, as per the code I posted above.

Right rtm described what I'm talking about perfectly (I too missed the pre codes at first - I fixed those posts so they show up now).


The easiest way to approach this is paste the code you want to use in the tute into a word processor, and then use find & replace to instantly convert all the <> to &lt; and &gt; Takes about 5 seconds to do a whole document that way.

You could also insert the html code into a textarea:


Another tag I used to use:


It makes it show up in plain text.

thanks alot everyone for the help, cono's xmp tag helped me and now it displays the code perfectly, thanks again for the help everyone

Hey, not a problem.

now its not working again, i used everything you guys suggested and they don't work. i don't understand whats happening, the code im want to show is below

Between the head tag and the first p tage, you need [body]. Replace [] with <>. You need [/body] for between the ending p tag and the ending html tag, replace like the other one. I hope that was a mistake, otherwise you shouldn't be running an HTML help site.

Hi everybody
This forum is extremely helpful and I just became a member I have a PHP script I am working on. User inputs Ebay Auction numbers at the left menu and when submits it, the preview shows up in an iframe at the right side. I would like to be able to show also html source for users to copy and use it. Since there's not an html generated until they hit the submit, how may I supposed to create html source. I would like to show it just below Preview Iframe, it can be another iframe, layer or table. here's the link to my code, it's not completed yet
http://www.kirtok.com/ebay/cross/cross3.php
Thanks in advance.
Matt

Hi again
Nobody has any idea??? I really need help with this.
Thanks again

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