ar0n made a patch to clean up the HTML to be in line with our desire to be XHTML clean. This includes putting the tags in lower case. Unfortunately, the small font makes <tt> harder to read than <TT> so I dropped the <s and >s and then decided to save some space, giving this:

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• Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following: a, b, big, blockquote, br, code, dd, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, li, nbsp, ol, p, pre, 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 editor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.

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Note also that the list of tags is now pulled from the official list so it will automatically stay in sync with what is really allowed.

Feedback welcome.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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	]		&#93;

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