HTML Guide Posting Question

[lavendertook]

If I want to post a guide to using certain html tags, and present those tags as example text, what characters do I need to post to keep those examples from performing those action

In other words, say I want to demonstrate how you would type the html to link to my previous post. How do I show that instruction on my entry so that it doesn't just become that link instead?

I've had no luck googling up an answer to this, so now I'm bugging ya'll for help. Help, anyone?

Comments

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

If all fails, you could post the code as a pic. But I think adding asterixes and similar into the code will help, too.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! How might I post it as a pic? I don't want to put in asterixes because I'm trying to write a beginner's guide and that would confuse the intended audience. I know there must be a simple code, as I've seen it done online; I just haven't figured out how to find it.

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

You could just all write it down in a word file, make a screenshot and post that.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So far I've found one code that kind of works: "textarea".

<user site="livejournal.com" user="frodosweetstuff">

Now if I could find a code where I could do that without creating a box.

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's good to know! So happy that you found a way to make it work!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm writing it as an rtf for my writing portfolio for my job hunt, and this isn't a problem there, but I would like to be able to post it, as maybe someone can make use of it.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

And the box is open--you can type more stuff in it in my posted comment. I wonder what you could use that for?

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

Oooh, interesting!!