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The problem with bold and italics

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 09:30

I've just figured out what it is. If you try to do two different bolded words in the same paragraph it ignores the middle two asterisks and bolds everything in between as well. The same is happening with italics.

e.g.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

VS

The quick brown fox
Jumps over the lazy dog

Also: (I don't know what this does, I thought I'd experiment)

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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ladyintheradiator · 17/04/2011 15:23

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HopeEternal · 17/04/2011 15:10

When I see the stray asterisks, I assume the poster only meant to bold the 2 individual words and got caught out by the new way the tags work.

I wonder if there's a way to end the tag (like you do with the / in HTML codes)?

Test: The quick brown/ fox jumps over the lazy/ dog.

Oh. How bizarre...

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 15:02

(trying to catch it out now Grin)

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 15:02

Yes true. But in a couple of posts I've made (and I've noticed the pattern in others too) that you see two separate words someone intended to bold, but everything in between gets bolded as well. Sometimes it isn't obvious whether they intended to bold it all, but sometimes it is.

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HopeEternal · 17/04/2011 14:56

Didn't we used to have to bold or italicise each word individually and it's fairly recent that the tags worked on a series of words? I think that's why you sometimes get a string of bold words with asterisks in them.

Like that.

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 09:31

Oh damnit it didn't work at all Confused Well what is causing it to sometimes ignore the middle asterisks then?

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