title: How to paste Raw HTML into a README.md using markdown on GitHub?
body: <p>Editing a README.md for a git repository. But I want to embed raw HTML into the the readme. I'm using Markdown, which is an excellent tool. Yet, the code just keeps showing up as rendered HTML. </p>
  
  <p>How do I keep it Raw?
  And formatted like code? </p>
  
  <p>Here it is if you're curious: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  
  &lt;html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Welcome&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Django Site&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;hr /&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Thanks for visiting.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The heck? It works here. </p>