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How to use HTML tags in code snippets?
All sections in this site except Forum are HTML enabled. This makes a potential problem for code snippet submissions.Many times, code snippets include the angle brackets (< and >). Since HTML is enabled, such angle brackets will be considered as HTML tags and will not appear when the code snippet is viewed.
To make this work, if you use angle brackets in code snippets, they must be converted to corresponding escape charactes (< must be written as < and > must be written as >)
For example, if you want to post the below code snippet:
<input type=button id=btnSave>
You must actually type:
<input type=button id=btnSave>
Also, there are few other things to consider when you post code snippets:
1. The code portions within the resource must be embedded within the special tags [ CODE] and [/CODE ]
If there are multiple sections of code mixed with descriptive content, each piece of code must be enclosed within the [ CODE] and [/CODE ] tags.
2. If the lines of code within [ CODE] and [/CODE ] are too long, then split them in to multiple lines instead of having too long lines.
(In case of Forum, HTML is disable by default, but we can enable it optionally for selected messages).