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I clicked Post Reply, pasted in what I had copied from the ice.gov web site as outlined at the bottom of reply number 8, clicked Preview to make sure the copied material showed up okay, then clicked Post.

I notice that B4Ranch has also posted the article at reply number 5. His is a bit fancier than my post at reply number 8 as he apparently copied the original article in HTML and posted it here. I say that because his list of perps has a black bullet to left of it and mine doesn't. The original HTML would add the black bullets.

I have been posting on FR for a long time and know that, for all intents and purposes, posting a reply and posting an article is essentially the same process. For this reason, I'll not be posting the article to prove my point. Besides, the article has already been posted by you. No reason to post it again.

However, I did go through the motions of posting the article from the ice.gov web site using exactly the same procedure I outlined at the bottom of reply number 8. I used the Preview button to see how it would look if I posted it. The preview look exactly like my reply number 8 above. In other words I did everything you would do to post the article except click the Post button.

BTW, have you ever noticed this message at the bottom of the reply posting page:

This forum allows optional use of most HTML tags. If your post does not contain HTML, it will be converted to HTML when posted, retaining paragraphs as typed. This conversion is not performed if you have anything resembling an HTML tag in your text.

I use Firefox 11.0 as a browser. As Add-ons I have No Script and AdBlock Plus.

To copy an article I use the copy command to highlight the article. Then I right click my mouse and click the View Selection Source option. This gives me a new page entitled Dom Source Of Selection. It has every HTML command that the article has enclosed within it. I Copy that entire page and paste it into the Body of Thread box.

Then I edit from the Body of Thread box any material that I don’t want. After reviewing it, I then Post it as a thread.

Using the View Selection Source option and the Dom Source Of Selection make posting threads so simple when your intent is to have exactly the same format as the original, which is what I always try to do.

I don’t know what Google Chrome, IE, or the other browsers have when you right click on them so please refrain from asking what you can do with them. I simply don’t know.