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Nice job! You covered the things I use a lot, and much that I might not ever trouble to master. Definitely will remember <pre>, tho - it answers a felt need.

I will mention that it can be desirable to make a link to a particular reply in a particular thread, and you can get the URL you want by simply going to the reply and clicking on the number, which clearly is shown as a link. That’s simple, but any other way of trying to construct that number leads to grief, in my experience.

I use a Mac, and for many years I had no trouble making hypertext links, then about three years ago or so, I began experiencing a peculiar problem: HTML parser finds the <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com instruction just fine - but the second ” which is there to terminate the URL doesn’t get detected. With the result that the link, and anything after it, doesn’t appear in preview. For whatever reason, deleting and retyping ” then works, and I can proceed from there.

So it’s just a nuisance, but I’m curious why the ” gets displayed but not detected by HTML.

I had a similar experience at work back in the day, when an * was required and was displayed as being there - but wasn’t detected. All I did was delete and retype the *, and the program worked. Spooky.

Nice job! You covered the things I use a lot, and much that I might not ever trouble to master. Definitely will remember <pre>, tho - it answers a felt need.

Me too, especially useful is the one I didn't know about: <pre>.

I have the exact same trailing quote issue at Hot Gas..