<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="geneva, verdana, arial" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by kulegamr

The reason he used Blockquote is cause that is what I have always used instead of HTML code symbols (whatever they are called, I dont know, haha). Try a blockquote and put a < in it. It will show up. But what U2Orange pointed out, that if you close the tag in the quotes F.E.- <hello world how are you> then nothing will show up at all, but if you dont close it then you will see this in your browser. - <hello world how are you . Nicely pointed out U2, makes a lot of sense and I actually learned something. Thanks for the full explanation.
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Ok Kulegamr, you say you're here to learn stuff, so listen. I'll do this one more time. Doing blockquote and pre tags is doing NOTHING in regards to the format of the less-than and greater-than signs. In your example page that you linked to, if you remove the blockquote and pre tags, then it'll display exactly the same text (obviously in a different format) - but it'll still show the < and > the same. The blockquote and pre tags have NOTHING to do with how these tags are displayed.

However there are occasions when just doing < and > signs isn't sufficient. This occurs when you have text between a less-than and more-than sign. <like this> <and like> <this> <also <like this>. If you paste that in to your example page - in a blockquote or pre tag if you so choose - you'll notice that it doesn't display. To get it to display, you need to replace these tags with & lt; and & gt;

Infact, note that in the source of this page, all of the < and > have been converted. If you are writing server-side code that deals with user input (like on this site), on most occasions you should ensure the text is encoded for the reasons stated above.

Phew. Are we all in agreement now?