--- title: "<code> (Visual C++) | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "11/04/2016" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "" ms.technology: - "cpp-ide" ms.tgt_pltfrm: "" ms.topic: "article" f1_keywords: - "code" - "" dev_langs: - "C++" helpviewer_keywords: - " C++ XML tag" - "code C++ XML tag" ms.assetid: 687db3f8-d435-4a90-b781-8da503fa39bc caps.latest.revision: 8 author: "mikeblome" ms.author: "mblome" manager: "ghogen" translation.priority.ht: - "de-de" - "es-es" - "fr-fr" - "it-it" - "ja-jp" - "ko-kr" - "ru-ru" - "zh-cn" - "zh-tw" translation.priority.mt: - "cs-cz" - "pl-pl" - "pt-br" - "tr-tr" --- # <code> (Visual C++) The \ tag gives you a way to indicate one or more lines as code. ## Syntax ``` content ``` #### Parameters `content` The text you want marked as code. ## Remarks Use [\](../ide/c-visual-cpp.md) to indicate a portion of text should be marked as code. Compile with [/doc](../build/reference/doc-process-documentation-comments-c-cpp.md) to process documentation comments to a file. ## Example See the [\](../ide/example-visual-cpp.md) topic for an example of how to use the \ tag. ## See Also [XML Documentation](../ide/xml-documentation-visual-cpp.md)