If you can, could you please give me the coding for a text area where html shows up as I am really in need of it and cannot find it anywhere. Thank you very much!

<textarea name="textarea">&lt;your code in here&gt;</textarea>
&lt; is < &gt; is >

uou dont need to change them to &lt; and &gt; when they are inside a textarea:

<textarea><b></b></textarea>

will have a textarea with <b></b> in it, you can also use <xmp>:

<xmp>
code will show<b></b>
</xmp>