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1. yumadoug
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Does anyone know if there's a way to quote entire html tags in a web development-related post without having WordPress render the code (i.e. showing the link instead of the spelled-out code)? I was trying to instruct on the use of a tag, and ended up using a blockquote with only the contents of the tag. However, I'd prefer to display the entire tag, such as (and I'll have to break it up here for you) "<" "a href="wordpress.org" target="_blank"" ">".

   Thanks!

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   There's a couple ways to do it.

   a) Replace the <'s and >'s with &lt; and &gt; characters, and &'s with &amp; characters.

   b) Use a plugin to automate this sort of thing, like this one: http://priyadi.net/archives/2005/09/27/wordpress-plugin-code-autoescape/
   There's other plugins to do similar things at the bottom of that page.

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