How do you write HTML to appear in your blog?

Now and again, especially if writing about code you will want to display an example of source code in your blog, and if you are writing about HTML you may want to display some tags. If you are using Blogger, or mny other blogging tools it is likely instead of showing you HTML example the blog software will process the tags and render the output rather than displaying the code. How do you get round this?

Two things, first and most simply for any source code use the <code> tags.

function foobar(){ return true;}

Second, more especially for HTML use the following &lt; for < less-than symbols and use &gt; for all > greater than symbols. This will allow your source to appear on the page and not get processed:

<table>
<tbody>

etc etc...