Darn...I've come to realize a forum glitch. Text and particularly html entered in an original topic displays differently than text and html entered into a reply.
For instance, when you write a topic entry, the editor does not convert line breaks to paragraph breaks. I had to use html --- like "<p>" and "</p>" --- to make this separate paragraph.
Also, in topic text links have to be fully written out, like ""<a href="https://www.panbo.com/forum">panbo forums</a>"", but in replies a raw URL, like https://www.panbo.com/forum, will automatically be made into a link.
PS...fixed the line break problem..."<p>" is not needed.