Markup to show HTML code?

[xtricks]

The question was asked here: http://getting-started.dreamwidth.org/9572.html?nc=15#comments

And the final comment links to a page that is now dead on how to do it for LJ.

I'm looking for the HTML coding to put in (part of) a post that prevents DW from reading and applying the HTML codes so I can have a little box that people can copy to get a template that includes the raw HTML.

I've seen it around, so I know it's possible (often as a little scroll box). Like everyone else, I tried raw-code and got the lack of breaks. When I try code (which DW says is a valid HTML tag for the site) I get my text in tiny courier print.

Is there such a code in DW or can someone link me to a current tutorial on how to make what I'm looking for?

Comments

[somnolentblue]

I do little scrollboxes sometimes that people can just cut and paste, but I use the workaround of using & l t ; [without spaces] for < and & g t ; [without spaces] >. So my <a href="http://whatever goes here">address</a> is actually & lt ;a href=" "& gt ; address & lt ; /a & gt ;. It's not what you're looking for, but it works. ETA: Aaaand clicking at the original post, I saw that it was mentioned there.

[xtricks]

Thanks. I've seen that before and was hoping for something easier, cause I've got a lot of carrots!

[stormy]

You're looking to put your HTML surrounded by <textarea> & </textarea> tags.

[xtricks]

Thank you! That worked wonderfully well.

[marahmarie]

If you want to put raw HTML or any kind of code into your posts without using a textarea tag, there's a generator for that:

http://www.raffoul.ca/users/masterslacker/ljhtmlparser.php

(couldn't have lived without it over the years, since hand-coding raw html is so not my thing)

[turlough]

I lost the URL for that one some time ago, so thank you very much for supplying it!

[marahmarie]

You're welcome! :)

[sophie]

And just in case that link disappears, the manual way to have code showing up without the HTML being parsed is to do the following steps in order in a text editor:

1. Replace the string "&" with the string "&".
1. Replace the string "<" with the string "<".
1. Replace the string ">" with the string ">".

After doing that you'll have HTML that looks "something like &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;". You should then copy and paste that into your entry, and it'll show up as you want it to. In this case, that code would show up as "something like <em>this</em>".