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

[lbilover]

Ah okay. It occurred to me you could just make them into jpgs, but maybe you already have the answer. I'll be curious to know what it is!

[lavendertook]

Thank you! Cali solved it over on the LJ version of this post here. There is code called an "entity name" for the angle brackets that allows them to be posted without acting out the html. But if I wanted to try to write that code for you here, it would only come out as angle brackets, and I don't want to figure out if there is a way to do that as well, because we'll get ourselves stuck in an infinite loop of meta coding and get sucked into our journals and be trapped there! :-D