How to display HTML tags as plain text ?

Question

I want to display to the user a plain HTML snippet, but whenever I'm trying its automatically being rendered as HTML without the tags. I want to display the following, ```

This is a paragraph

``` But its rendering ``` This is a paragraph ``` How to display the plain code?

Divya · Accepted Answer

Replace the `<` with `&lt` and `>` with `&gt`

```
&ltp&gt This is a paragraph  &lt/p&gt
```

How to display HTML tags as plain text ?

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