How to format posts in this forum.

Question

<p>As you may have noticed posts in this form lose all formatting when you post even when you use formatting tags. Unfortunatley this well known yet mysteriously unresolved issue is true for almost all of the recently added forums, which seems a pity because several, like this one seem to be in concept a good idea.</p>
<p>Of course no formatting is a pain because it creates unreadable posts.</p>
<p>But wait there's a paragraph break! And here's another one! How did I do this?</p>
<p>Thankfully the same bug that means that normal formatting tags are not enabled for this forum also means that HTML tags <b>ARE</b> enabled for this forum.</p>
<p>Feedback has been reported on this issue since early June to no avail and I don't expect any change any time soon so I thought I'd let those interested in participating in this forum how they can actually post posts that can be read.</p>
<p>Finally here's a quickie HTML primer to help those who need it.
<br><center><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><b>Tag</b></td><td><b>Description</b></td><td><b>Example</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><p></td><td>Paragraph Tag</td><td><p>Paragraph one<p>paragraph two</td></tr>
<tr><td><br></td><td>Line Break</td><td>Line one<br> line two</td></tr>
<tr><td><b></td><td>Bold</td><td><b>Bold text</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><pre></td><td>Preformatted Tag</td><td><pre>
public class Sample{
private int x = 3;
</pre><br><small>Note that while this loses syntax highlighting it will keep code formatting intact</small></td></tr>
</table></center>
<p>And just to note for the pre and bold tags you will need closing tags at the end of the text you want to format in this manner. Otherwise it will not stop which will also be unplesant. Ending tags look like </b> and </pre></p>
<p>Hope some may find this helpful</p>

Answer 1

<p>Known forums with this issue include<ul>
<li>This one http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=546&start=0</li>
<li>HotSpot FAQs http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=547</li>
<li>RSS Feeds http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=532</li>
<li>Kerberos & Java GSS http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=545</li>
</ul></p>
<p>There may be others but certainly these newish ones are all broken and need to be fixed. This bug is annoying from a user perspective but also they can be dangerous as well if exploited</p>
<p>I know I have personally reported feedback about this problem since at least the middle of June to no effect yet</p>