How can I write HTML?

[dirkfirst]

How do I write HTML such as <b>test</b>????? Not just a bold test but showing the actual less than and greater than code.

[brackett]

You have to escape them with HTML entities. For instance, less than is &lt; and greater than is &gt; So you'd write:
&lt;b&gt;test&lt;b&gt;

If you do a view source on this page, you should see that your actual comment is using the entities.

[dirkfirst]

wow, thanks! I didn't realize that it was so easy.

I never thought to view the source on this page either.

[cpvr]

Originally Posted by brackett

You have to escape them with HTML entities. For instance, less than is &lt; and greater than is &gt; So you'd write:
&lt;b&gt;test&lt;b&gt;

If you do a view source on this page, you should see that your actual comment is using the entities.

Why's that? Can't you still use the regular html tags?

[dirkfirst]

Yeah, you can use regular HTML tags but I need to know how to actually write the < and > so they didn't show up as HTML.

[the-chad]

&gt; for >
&lt; for <

[DevilsCharm]

Ahhh, I get it, gt = greater than, lt = less than. I've always wondered how one would do that, because it would just convert into whatever the HTML code was. Very interesting.