A Page Written All In HTML
i really like making pages in html. obviously. just making this page has taught me some stuff. what stuff? this stuff:
how to do html so that the code shows up in your browser
disclaimer
i'm a very confusing person, mostly because i am very confused most all of the time. so there's a good chance this might confuse you. and if it doesn't, good job. i might hire you to be my assistant when i'm a big time web developer. wait, who am i kidding, if you can understand this i'll probably be working for you.
see, when you do code, you do code. confused? yeah. get used to it. when you do html, whatever you write comes out in the browser (browser? window? where's a dictionary when i need one?) like how you would want that page to look like. as in, instead of seeing the html, you would see a nice looking page. like my pages, you'd probably see a black background, grey text (and i write it grey, not gray. but alas, in html you have to spell it gray or it won't work), and maybe an image or two. like this:
but in order to write code so it shows up as code, you have to approach it this way: instead of typing a < or a >, you have to type ampersandpoundsixzerosemicolon and ampersandpoundsixtwosemicolon. well, not typed out in words, but in &, #, 60 and 62, and ;. see, now if i had put them all together (& # 60 ; but without the spaces), it would come out as <. see, very confusing. don't try and understand it, just take it as truth. or, you know, you could head over to a site that has ASCII characters and see what the heck i'm talking about.