How to show code in the post ?

I want to show some code in my wordpress post..
Like < a href = " http : // www.dirkut.com >

But it turns to live link..
Look here www.dirkut.com the first post..

Can anybody help

 

Go to Edit Post.

Click the "HTML" or "CODE" tab. get rid of the <a href=fjwefgnwofgo> tag and also the closing </a> tag.

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I have already used <code> tag around those codes .. But it gets converted to live link..

 

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codesnippet-20/
I use this .

 

You can do it while typing the post
Just make three replacements.
replace < with &lt;
replace this > with &gt;
and replace " with &quot;

now when you will publish the post the results will be as desired.
Hope it helps.