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You are not forced to use br tags. In fact I'd generally strongly discourage their use. Most often people use br tags to "format" their text into "nice" line lengths. That is a pure waste of effort, flies directly in the face of the intent of HTML and really pisses off anyone who doesn't agree with your concept of a "nice" line length.

For PerlMonks there are two markup tags you need to know 'p' tags and 'c' (or 'code') tags. Almost anything else is fancy and not required. The only other "Magic" that a frequent poster on PerlMonks needs to know is how to link stuff using [ and ].

So, two tags and one style of link magic to cover 90% of posts on PerlMonks. How hard is that to learn?

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In reply to Re: Wiki-Style syntax for posting by GrandFather
in thread Wiki-Style syntax for posting by Anonymous Monk

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


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