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I've posted a lot to StackOverflow, and I've noticed something kind of irritating with the formatting in writing questions and comments. If I need to put something inside a < and a >, without spaces in the middle (like right there), it will think it's code and not show up, like this

(obviously it won't come up what I wrote there, or else this wouldn't be an issue, but if you open up the question to edit you can see what's written there.)

If I want it to show up, right now I have to add an extra set of brackets inside of the originals with a junk variable, like right <here> (again, open in edit window to see).

This is really annoying when trying to show variables like lists that require those brackets, and I feel like the junk variables could confuse people looking at the edits. Is there a way to get around this formatting? Thanks!

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    Just wrap in backticks.
    – Bart
    Oct 31, 2013 at 13:39
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    Isn't this the wrong dupe?
    – M.A.R.
    Oct 9, 2016 at 17:13
  • @rene I dunno, I remember this specific question being asked.
    – M.A.R.
    Oct 9, 2016 at 18:57

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Put backticks around `<html>tags</html>`.

becomes:

Put backticks around <html>tags</html>.

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  • Thanks, I figured it was something simple, but couldn't for the life of me figure out what haha
    – thnkwthprtls
    Oct 31, 2013 at 13:40
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You can use &lt; and &gt; to get them <displayed without being marked a code> if they in fact aren't code.

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    Supplemental to Martijn Pieters answer, for those who will find this question by title but are not interested in code blocks.
    – Mołot
    Oct 31, 2013 at 14:02
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Use backticks (`) to show code in a post.

If the text is code then it should be put in `code blocks`

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