How can I display something like this

<span class="browse">

in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.

Is there some other tag to have it treated as text?

Thanks.

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:47:20 -0700, Sean Berry <sean_berry@cox.net> wrote:
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> How can I display something like this
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> <span class="browse">
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> in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.
>
> Is there some other tag to have it treated as text?
>
> Thanks.
>
>[/color]

Use &name; type entities. http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html

&lt;span class="browse"&gt;

"Sean Berry" <sean_berry@cox.net> wrote:
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>How can I display something like this
><span class="browse">
>in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.[/color]
Change < to &lt; (and if you want to be symmetrical change & to &gt;).
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>Is there some other tag to have it treated as text?[/color]

Not any more. There was once upon a time and some browser still
support it, but it's been dropped from the spec for a long time.

Steve

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Steve Pugh wrote in
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> "Sean Berry" <sean_berry@cox.net> wrote:
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>> How can I display something like this
>> <span class="browse">
>> in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.[/color][/color]
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> Change < to &lt; (and if you want to be symmetrical change & to &gt;).[/color]

I know it's only a typo, but for them as don't, it should have read:

Change < to &lt; (and if you want to be symmetrical change > to &gt;).

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Sean Berry wrote:
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> How can I display something like this
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> <span class="browse">
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> in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.[/color]

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Show_HTML_examples


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"PeterMcC" <peter@mccourt.org.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
>Steve Pugh wrote:[color=green]
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>> Change < to &lt; (and if you want to be symmetrical change & to &gt;).[/color]
>
>I know it's only a typo, but for them as don't, it should have read:
>
>Change < to &lt; (and if you want to be symmetrical change > to &gt;).[/color]

Whoops, yes. Thanks.

Steve

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Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

Sean Berry wrote:
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> How can I display something like this
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> <span class="browse">
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> in a browser without having it interpreted as an html tag.
>
> Is there some other tag to have it treated as text?[/color]

Not really, no. What you need to do is encode the < and > as &lt; and
&gt; respectively.

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