How do we post questions on this forum with basic markups...

Mine never works.
Please look at my last post, just earlier to this one. It is horrible.
I tried Firefox and IE thinking it could be something to do with that.
Anyways, I hope I get this solved.

Hello,
I wasn't able to find the "size limit" information yesterday. Formatting gets lost at about 2500 characters, so break up your post so that each piece is smaller than that limit and the formatting will be retained. There's also a maximum post length limit. If I remember correctly it is about 5000 characters.
Sincerely,
Dan Kelleher

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