HTML in Talk and Profiles

Important: Please close all html tags before the end of your message - unclosed tags carry on to the following messages. If you don't know what I mean by 'closing html tags' then please don't use them. Note added at sunny's request.
I ran a quick test to see which html tags seem to be supported.
In TalkThere's a pretty wide range including

• <h1> <h2> . . .
• <p>
• <br />
• <hr />
• <i> and <em>
• <b> and <strong>
• <code> and <pre>
• <ol> and <ul> (Note 1)
• <img> and <a> (Note 2)
• <blockquote>
• <div> and <span>
• most (all?) html entities (Note 3)

In Your ProfileThe list is much shorter.

• <i>
• <code><bold> and <strong>
• <img> and <a>

CSSCSS appears to be well supported and you can add style attributes to most tags. But because the <p>, <span> and <div> tags aren't supported in Your Profile you are limited to what you can achieve there.
Notes:

1. The default is no bullet, so you need to add one with css e.g. <ul style="list-style-type:square; list-style-position:inside;">
2. You must use double quotes " " round attribute values, single quotes do not work
3. But notice that HTML entities are not preserved through editing so keep a back up copy of your text if you use them and expect to re-edit the message
4. All new lines can create new paragraphs so spacing is a bit tricky, best write with the minimum of extra breaks.

PS: updated 7 Oct 2006 : corrected entry on Your Profile and fixed broken tags (in order to show tags they have to be entered in part as entities like &lt;p> but these aren't preserved and have to be fixed up every time you edit the message!

PPS: Sunny and I established that the tag closing behaviour differs between IE & FireFox - no surprise there then ;-(

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PS: this is posted in a second message because putting all the entities back in the previous one takes too long :-)