How do I create a coding box.

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For example if I want to make a website where you can learn HTML and CSS then how can I add examples of code because if I try the

 <h1> Hello </h1> <code> in the output I see this: Hello. <br />
How can I create a way that if I have something like this:<br />
<DOCTYPE html><br />
 <head><br />
  <style type="text/css"><br />
  <br />
  </style> <br />
 </head><br />
 <br />
 <body><br />
<br />
  <h1> Here is an example of how to write "Hello" in HTML: </h1><br />
  <h1 class="code"><br />
   Hello<br />
  </h1><br />
  <br />
 </body><br />
<br />
How do I make the ".code" not look like this in the output?: Hello<br />
How do I make it look like this in the output?:<br />
  <h1 class="code"><br />
   Hello<br />
  </h1><br />
<br />
What I have tried:<br />
<br />
<code> <h1> Hello </h1>

Posted 16-Dec-17 13:50pm

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Updated 16-Dec-17 14:33pm

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Richard MacCutchan 17-Dec-17 3:18am

You probably need to learn it yourself first.

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2017-12-16T14:33:00

In html some chars are reserved, it means that the browser will see them as formating command or html tags. In order to have them displayed, you need to replace them with character entities.
< is replaced with <
> is replaced with >
& is replaced with &
so

HTML

<h1> Hello </h1>

is replaced with