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

[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!!