How to escape everything in a block in HTML

Question

I seem to recall that there is an HTML tag that escapes absolutely everything inside it except the matching closing tag. Kind of like <plaintext> but not fundamentally broken.

Answer 1

<xmp> is the tag you are looking for:

<xmp>some stuff <tags></tags> too</xmp>

But, since it's depricated, the best you can get is <pre>.