How to put HTML code as string in HTML page?

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I am sending HTML news letters and composing them run-time. I need to put HTML code as string in the HTML news letter. Since the HTML code I need to place as a string is also html it executes in the browser but I dont want this, I want to display that code itself. Any help will be appreciated.

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Alex W · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 04:05:28Z

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Wrap the HTML in <code> or <pre> tags

and make sure you use an HTML entity encoder on the code first so that it will display < and > properly.

edited Apr 2, 2013 at 4:05

answered Apr 2, 2013 at 3:55

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PaulProgrammer Over a year ago

For added fun, if you can execute javascript, you can use something like SyntaxHighlighter (alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter) to make the code all purty-like.

Explosion Pills · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-02 04:01:49Z

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You need to encode the < and > as well as other html special characters. Many languages have libraries that do this such as php's htmlspecialchars and ruby's h(), but it seems like you're just writing the HTML out.

<pre class="htmlcode">&lt;html&gt;</pre>

The above would display <html>.

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