How to use <code> tag?

Question

how to use <code> tag in HTML

Answer 1

It's just another text element that styles the inner text to look like a piece of code... Just styling nothing special...

<code>Text</code>

Answer 2

By this you can define a piece of code

Answer 3

The <code> tag is used to display blocks of code. The correct way to use it (as far as I know) is:

<pre>
     <code>
        puts "hello!"
     </ code>
</ pre>

There are many tutorials on how to add syntax highlighting with pygments, highlight.js, etc.

https://scotch.io/tutorials/get-beautiful-syntax-highlighting-for-your-website-code