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I want to have the browser treat a section of the file as text rather than html code. Is there a way to have a browser treat a section as text and display it as is instead of thinking it is html tags and potentially messing up the page? I am mostly interested in this as it would be useful when displaying sample HTML on a post. Thank you. After doing some research, I found two ways to display html tags on a page. One involved replacing the characters ’<’ and ’>’ with < > and ” to ". The other alternative I found which I prefer is using the “Code” tag. However, I was not able to use the tag as shown below: <code> <a href="http://JCBauza.com">My site</a> </code> but rather I had to do a combination of both. From the looks of it the tag only allows for special formatting by the browser: <code> <p> <code> </p> <p> <a href="http://JCBauza.com">My site</a></p> <p> </code></p> <p> </p> </code>