Prevent rendering of certain tags

[tryin_to_learn]

What's the tag for displaying code within text (i.e., preventing the code from rendering)? I thought it was either <code> or <pre> but neither of those is doing what I want. I'm trying to display this line as text (i.e., so the SPAN tag shows as text instead of being parsed):

"An example of using the LANG attribute is: <SPAN LANG="fr">Cette phrase est en français</SPAN>."

This is for a WordPress blog, if that makes a difference. It works fine in this forum, but WordPress renders it.

Thanks.

[zcorpan]

Replace < with &lt; and & with &amp;.

[tryin_to_learn]

Ah, perfect. Thanks.