It places them in a while, 1px bordered box

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As for the HTML tags, as it has been said before, all work is to be submitted as a text or zip file, there should not be any real need for such here.
This was asked a while back when memebers started posting text and not text & zip files. While it may be a bit more trouble to save a patch as a TXT or ZIP file, it cleans the place up a lot more than a slew of HTML everywhere, mis-aligned post-boxes, and so forth

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