I’m an ignorant buffoon who is interested in using italics in my stories. I have seen several people comment that this can be done through the use of HTML. I just want to make sure I understand this correctly.
My thinking is I would put before the text I want to italicize, and then the same with a slash at the end, right? Or am I off base with this?
Does anyone have any examples on the main site of stories that use italics? I want to see what it would look like on the user end.
Edit: I appear to have unintentionally italicized the words in this post. Lol. Who knew computering could be so complicated?
If I just do it how I did above in an actual story on the main site, would it work the same way?
Yeah, basically for the basic text formatting markup you’d be using, that would be:
<.i> <./i> as you figured out (minus the ‘.’
<.b></.b> for bold
same tag format <>text </> with a ‘u’ for underline…
etc.
Basically, those brackets are your starting and closing tags, effecting what’s between them.
besides bold, italic and underline, some other options are <.p> for a paragraph but since you can easily do that here with hitting enter/return, probably unnecessary.
However, I have not used html formatting in my stories on-site yet so I can’t answer that. But if html CAN be used for submitting stories–not forum posts–then yes, that is how you’d do it.
