Display HTML on a website.

Does anyone know how I can display HTML on a website page?

I thought it was as simple as:

<code><a href=http://www.link.com target="_blank"><img src=http://www.link.com/image.jpg ></A></code>

But this still displays the picture, I want it to display the HTML within the <code> tags.

:?

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Code:

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<

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(HTML code for "less than") and

Code:

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>

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(HTML code for "greater than") instead of < and >


*edit*
look at the source of this page for an example

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<div id="post_message_776674">Does anyone know how I can display HTML on a website page?<br />
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I thought it was as simple as:<br />

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&lt;code&gt;&lt;a href=<a href="http://www.link.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.link.com</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=http://www.link.com/image.jpg &gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br />
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But this still displays the picture, I want it to display the HTML within the &lt;code&gt; tags.<br />

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<img src="images/smilies/icon_confused.gif" border="0" alt="" title=":?" class="inlineimg" /></div>

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