How to print code on HTML

Question

I want to display code characters on an HTML page. But no matter what I try it always renders HTML characters. pre or code doesn't work. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The <xmp> tag doesn't require the contents to be escaped.

eg:

<xmp>
    <p>Blah &nbsp;</p>
</xmp>

...will look like this on your screen:

    <p>Blah &nbsp;</p>