The Ning HTML box has caused nervous breakdowns, tourette syndrome and once I took to the nearest bridge before I came to my senses. Turns out, the Ning HTML text box was not successful in killing my will to live ;)

It's always been a mystery. The HTML / CSS code you needed to add to a Ning HTML text box in order for it to look right.

I use an HTML code development program (Coda). NEVER has the outcome looked the same in the N.H.T.B. (Ning HTML Text Box). Not once.

Could it really be that all we need to do is to run it through an HTML optimizer? It seems so (!) Why oh why oh why, has Ning never told us this? Why did they make the NHTB in this way?

Here's one of the many HTML optimizers out there:

http://www.selfseo.com/html_optimizer.php

Try it your self. I no longer have to use a magic wand to make my code look right in the NHTB.