Ascii character codes shown as text in browser

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I run a website that has HTML tutorials on it. I am familiar with the use of ascii character codes like < and > when I am writing HTML tags on my website, but I want to show my users how to write their character codes like this. One of the ones I want to show them is a gap in HTML, represented by &nbsp, but whenever I type it on my HTML document it converts to a space, even though it is in the <code> tags. Is there an alternative that looks the same as &nbsp, but doesn't have any functionality? Maybe with CSS or HTML?

possibly dupicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17427713/how-to-write-out-html-entity-name-nbsp-lt-gt-etc — Insomniac, Feb 15 '16 at 07:56

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:55

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< and the like are not ASCII character codes, they're HTML entities.

And to show them, it's quite simple: escape the & by writing & instead, so write &lt; to show <.

answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:55

jcaron

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:51

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I'm also a newbie in html, but try wrapping your code w/ <pre> </pre>

answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:51

dammy999

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:51

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I believe if you put it in your markup as

 &amp;nbsp;

It will give you what you want.

answered Feb 15 '16 at 07:51

Buddy Yaussy

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Ascii character codes shown as text in browser

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