Escaping characters on help page

I would like to escape some html-code I'm placing on a help region. Is that possible? How is the escaping for escaped html region implemented? Can I use the same API?

No, that does not help. I want it to show up in the webpage. So I want to be able to write some htmlcode on the page and display the actual html code for the reader. The comment would just make it not interpreted by the browser, but it would not show up on the webpage.
In this case it is a basic DIV I want to show including the tags. I want to grab the code from it's actual place and show it here, so just reqriting the tags is not a good option. Calling a function to do some basic replacements would be OK though. Even better would be to be able to use an HTML region that escapes the special characters, but it seem like the help region only uses a standard html region.

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