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Displaying literal HTML

Code block or <em>inline</em>. Or use an HTML character entity (<) for the leading angle bracket: <tag>. Here's the code block:

<p>
This is HTML.
</p>

How does a table work?

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The point of a table is that it is rigid. Information is easily interpreted by making visual associations between row and column headers. Look at the table below for example and find a Jovian gas giant with 62 moons. You can find the answer by associating the relevant row and column headers.

		Name	Mass (1024kg)	Diameter (km)	Density (kg/m3)	Gravity (m/s2)	Length of day (hours)	Distance from Sun (106km)	Mean temperature (°C)	Number of moons	Notes
Terrestial planets		Mercury	0.330	4,879	5427	3.7	4222.6	57.9	167	0	Closest to the Sun
		Venus	4.87	12,104	5243	8.9	2802.0	108.2	464	0
		Earth	5.97	12,756	5514	9.8	24.0	149.6	15	1	Our world
		Mars	0.642	6,792	3933	3.7	24.7	227.9	-65	2	The red planet
Jovian planets	Gas giants	Jupiter	1898	142,984	1326	23.1	9.9	778.6	-110	67	The largest planet
		Saturn	568	120,536	687	9.0	10.7	1433.5	-140	62
	Ice giants	Uranus	86.8	51,118	1271	8.7	17.2	2872.5	-195	27
		Neptune	102	49,528	1638	11.0	16.1	4495.1	-200	14
Dwarf planets		Pluto	0.0146	2,370	2095	0.7	153.3	5906.4	-225	5	Declassified as a planet in 2006, but this remains controversial.

When done correctly, even blind people can interpret tabular data in an HTML table — a successful HTML table should enhance the experience of sighted and visually impaired users alike.