Oh..was afraid of that...since  'code'   is an HTML keyword like'p'...

, I used an extension where it says 'edit in a write area', that composes in HTML and writes the result.  It works with most sites that take HTML, but I guess it doesn't work here because perlmonks has redefined the 'code' keyword to behave differently than the standard specifies?  Urg...how...'unstandard'  ;-)

I wonder how much of a bother it would be to use a keyword that ISN'T defined in HTML so we wouldn't be redefining the standard?  Just a thought.