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.