Question

if a html is

<pre>
<img src="imagesrc"></img>
</pre>

how would you using jQuery or javascript replace < with < for anything within <pre>
The output for code above should be.

<pre>
&lt;img src="imagesrc">&lt;/img>
</pre>

Answer 1

Are you trying something like this?

HTML:

<pre>
<img src="imagesrc"></img>
</pre>

Javascript:

$(function() {
   var $pre = $('pre');
   $pre.html($pre.html().replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;'));
});