Add HTML code into a apge without it acting as HTML.

Can you put it into the visual editor?

yeah but then I try and add DIV tags to it in the html editor and it all messes up

Possibly you need a plugin if you want to actually show code:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-code-highlight/

Thank you to the two people who actually bothered to reply, but I ‘eventually’ found it out for myself.

to display html as html without it activating install this plugin:
https://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/preserve-code-formatting/

download, then install via wordpress in the plugin section, then all you do is add [code] YOUR HTML [/code] to the page (but with <> instead of [] ), apparently this is buggy when switching to visual editor so just turn that off, ( i don’t use it anyway)

hope this helps other people who were in my situation ??