Bob wrote:
[top-posting adjusted]
> On Apr 15, 4:32 am, Harlan Messinger
> <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Bob wrote:
>>> http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/20...tml-code-show-...
>> You seem to have missed the built-in solution that exists for this. All
>> you have to do is substitute "<" (including both the ampersand and
>> the semicolon) for the less-than ("<") at the beginning of each tag.
>> Likewise, if you want something like "<" to appear like that on your
>> page as such instead of as "<", write it as "&lt;" instead. This is
>> called "escaping" characters that have a special significance when you
>> want to display them in a non-special way.
>
> I know, but I hate that. I wanted to try something different.
>
Please don't top-post, it complicates responses. Please don't
multi-post, I just found myself replying to you again on another
newsgroup before I realized it wasn't the same thread as this one. If
you must, use cross-posting.
As I said in the other location, I don't know why you hate doing it the
built-in, straightforward way and prefer to misrepresent the situation
as a problem to which you couldn't find a solution until you hacked one
out yourself using a complicated work-around with textareas, but that's
your business.