[ThePythonicCow]

Actually, the way FR works now, all you have to do is highlight the article, copy it, and paste it in the posting box.

Am I right in thinking that doing this would get the basic paragraph markings (assuming nothing you cut and paste looked like html code), but that it would miss any fancier formatting, active links, images, ...?

I continue to enjoy doing:

1. highlight the portion of the web page you want to post (the article itself)
2. right click menu - View Selection Source [requires FireFox]
3. Control-C to copy from the selection source that comes up
4. Control-V to paste in the posting box.

Often with little or no fixup, that presents the best looking postings. The most common fixup is to convert relative URL's to full URL's, so that links and images work.

Granted ... I'm just showing off my elite geek skills.

Any posting method that preserves paragraph markings beats any posting method that doesn't, hands down.

[Howlin]

That sounds like VIEW PARTIAL SOURCE on XP's right click (it's an addon.)

But if you just copy and paste, it doesn't bring ANY of the formatting with it; that's the trick; if you're going to use one formatting code, you have to do the WHOLE thing in code.

But if you just type it like you would in MS Word, then select, copy, and paste, it comes out looking just like this I'm typing now -- as I am using no codes.

It even works in the reply boxes; if you copy and paste a link to another article/thread, as long as you don't use any code, the link becomes live automatically.