Is it possible to use an <a> tag within a <pre> tag?

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Im working with some legacy code that generates a given message on a webpage but surrounds it with a \[code\]<pre>\[/code\] tag - I was hoping to put a link (anchor tags) within it like this:\[code\]<pre>User created successfully - <a href='http://stackoverflow.com/View/User/17'>click here</a> to view the users profile</pre>\[/code\]But I think because its a \[code\]<pre>\[/code\] tag it ignores tags within it. Is there any way around this?APOLOGIESIm really sorry to have wasted everyone's time - the reason why it was happening was due to the fact that I was using \[code\]ModelState.AddModelError\[/code\] (in ASP.NET MVC) to set the error message, which automatically HTML encodes the message you give it (I used Chrome's element inspector which shows the HTML decoded version, hence the confusion)