The best way to post chords here is the use the preformat tag <pre> before and </pre> after the section with the chords, making sure to use automatic linebreaks or put <br> line breaks after every line (but not both).

The preformat tag sets a monospaced font, so every letter takes up the same amount of space on the screen (normal fonts take less space for the letter i than they do for m, so it's hard to keep things aligned from one line to the line below it. The best way to prepare chords for posting is to type them up as a text file and get them to look just the way you want them to look, and then add the line breaks and preformat tags, and then paste the whole thing into a Mudcat message box. Oh - be sure to use spaces to separate chords, because tabs don't aren't always consistent.

-Joe Offer-

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Here's a great idea from Walter Corey:

This is a format I've been using to type up songs. Bold letters indicate where the chord changes. You could use underlines also. Here is an example:

NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT - (Jimmy Cox)

Once I lived the life of a millionaire (C-E7-A7)
Spending my money, with never a care (Dm-A7-Dm-A7-Dm)
Takin' all my friends out for a mighty good time (F-B7-C-A7)
Drinkin' high-priced liquor, champagne and wine; (D7-G7)

This involves more HTML coding to set off the bold, but it's not too much more complicated than putting the line breaks in. I don't know whether people would find this less intrusive than embedding the chords right in the line.

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When I'm using a lot of start/stop tags like Walter does in this situation, I type them out once and copy-paste them where I need them, filling in between them when I need to.
So, I'd type <b></b> only once, highlight and copy [CTRL-C] it, and then paste [CTRL-V] it wherever I need it.
-Joe Offer-