Alright, I feel dumb, but my search-fu is failing me. When I type up the descriptions for items in my shop, I've so far kept it simple. Line breaks, put a blank line between relevent stuff, and hit 'save'. And it looks good in the box there. But then when I actually view the item, it compacts it all into one block paragraph. I haven't even been able to find if I'm supposed to use HTML formatting or what. Gah,
You can use html commands like <br> to go to the next line. That's pretty much all I've been using, with the possible exception of an html link command here and there. I think you can also use a rich text editor and cut and paste that into the description box, but don't hold me to that.
I suggest typing it up in a word document first and just copying and pasting it into the description box because going in and out of that box, I've found, mangles the HTML after a while. Other tools like <h1> <h2> and <h3> are your friends (headers) as is <font color="(color name or hex code)"> </font>. Don't forget to make use of <em> and <b>. Quick examples: http://shpws.me/GrDb & http://shpws.me/Gtgo
Thanks, guys! I couldn't find anything that even mentioned those. My search-fu had failed me, senseis.
The format is Rich Text. I like using this Rich Text editor. Although, a HTML editor or Word or Open Office will work very well for most codes.