[jbsniff]

Let's say I was writing an html tutorial and I wanted people to be able to see my html code. Now if I just wrote it the browser would parse it as html and I would see a text box (for example). I want people to see the code. (<input type = "text" />)

Do any of you know how to tell the browser that the html is not markup but text?

[coolmark18]

use the xmp tags.

So

Code:

<xmp> <a href="mysite.com">Hello<a/> </xmp>

would display

<a href="mysite.com">Hello<a/>

[jbsniff]

I figured it out, thanks.

for those interested I was actually embedding html inside a <textarea></textarea>. The problem was when I put a textarea inside those two tags the ending textarea </textarea> would end the first one.
observe:
<textarea>
<textarea>

</textarea> <- This text area tag stopped the first one, not the second.
</textarea>

All I had to do was use the php function htmlentities(). For more information check here .

[jfulton]

Yes, anytime you are using "html" characters (<, >, &, ") you should escape them. If you don't have php, you can just type them in manually (&lt;, &gt;, &amp;, &quot;)