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]

:-D Yup, though they may not have been skilled at translating into plainer language even in earlier stages. Which is what tech writers are for, though so much of tech writing is not rendered much more intelligibly. Which is why I should be hired, dammit!!! (-; I'm writing up a guide to basic posting on DW to pad my writing portfolio for tech writing jobs. I'm thinking of it as my mother's guide to DW. And I want to submit it to DW development where I think it might be useful among the DW FAQ's--they don't have one that is quite this clear for a newbie.

You are a most excellent renderer of geekish unto the masses! (-:

[ancalime8301]

Haha, yes. You should definitely be hired. ;-D Ah, that's a good idea! I remember floundering around with basic tags and html when I first started.

Thank you! Let's hope these folks I'll be seeing for the interview agree with you. ;-)