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[eteam00]

I'll get back to my spam tackling and fixing broken links!

ahem... are we fixing broken links, or are we fixing code which breaks, fixes, and changes links?  :)

Full stop(.)

-- Bob Elkind

[chughes]

Good point, well made.

[eteam00 · Accepted solution]

Turns out my last post got squashed! I wrote it on an ipad when normally I work on a pc. Curious!

I returned to the original squashed post which precipitated this thread.

• Opened it in the text editor with 'edit reply', and selected the HTML view.
• I noticed that lines which were irrevocably squashed were marked with <div>text here</div>.
• I inserted <br> where I wanted blank lines inserted, and submitted the post.
• Voila!  Blank lines were achieved.
• Open the post again, and select in HTML view.
• Instances of <div>text here</div><br> were replaced with <p>text here</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
• Then I opened another post, quite ordinary, and noticed that the <p>text here</p> form is the common form for a post.
• Then (brazenly) return to original post, replaced all <div>text here</div> with <p>text here</p> and post looks fine.

Is this an interesting discovery, or am I simply showing my HTML ignorance?

-- Bob Elkind

[chughes]

Well debugged! :) You are certainly showing up my ignorance, as I didn't even think to look in the HTML view rather than the Rich Text view.

Two of your most recent posts on this board teach us all, that working in HTML (within limits!!) could be reasonable workaround for a few annoying issues.