Talking about this if so it is embedded in script. I started to change it like you mentioned but, * is easier to remove and easier to understand more that lt amd gt. It would be easy for us to understand but some people would not know what we are talking about so I leave * there then they do not have to mess with the other things to remove.
PHP Code:
<td><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>Banner Code :</b><br>
<br>
<*a href="[url]http://www.realwebhost.net/index2.html"[/url]; title="Real Web
Host Home"><br>
<*img src="[url]http://www.realwebhost.net/banner.gif"[/url];
border="0"><br>
<*/a></font></td>
thanks Firefly