How to show tag literally in / tag?

Unfortunately it doesn’t work with HTML tags.

<code> means “This is code”, <pre> means “White space in this markup is significant”. Neither means “The content of this element should not be treated as HTML”, so both work perfectly, even if they don’t mean what you want them to mean.

Is there any way to show “<div>” inside of <pre> or <code> tag without actually interpreting it as HTML?

If you want to render a < character then use &lt;, with &gt; for > and &amp; for &.

You can’t (in modern HTML) write markup and have it be interpreted as text.

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