Posting code

On of the problems I faced in blogger editor was, whenever I posted some code on the blog. I wanted to put the code in text area so that it can easily copied. I always used to run into problem there. Here I am trying to that let us see how it goes
<br /><br />function translate(lang) {<br /> document.getElementById('list').style.visibility='hidden'<br /> gTransURL ='http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7C'+lang+'<br /> document.location.href=gTransURL<br />}<br /><br />