Problem with html tags

[steve]

I need html tags in my forum pages to show up, but not to be active.
I have tried to change the tags to html equivalent code using php, but
still they are active.

How do I go about chaning them to non-active?

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[Geoff May]

Re: Problem with html tags

steve wrote:
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> I need html tags in my forum pages to show up, but not to be active.
> I have tried to change the tags to html equivalent code using php, but
> still they are active.
>
> How do I go about chaning them to non-active?[/color]

Replace the < with &lt; and > with &gt;

MfG

Geoff.

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[C.Schneck]

Re: Problem with html tags

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> I need html tags in my forum pages to show up, but not to be active.
> I have tried to change the tags to html equivalent code using php, but
> still they are active.
>
> How do I go about chaning them to non-active?
>
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