How to bold, italicise & underline some of the text in your LDV comments

By Paul Walter | Sat 3rd August 2019 - 3:05 pm

A reader has asked about this.

If you want to add some special features to your comments on this site, you can use HTML coding.

Don’t be frightened.

In a simple example, if you want to do a bit of bolding and a bit italicising, you simply type as in the following example:

Test
Writing normally
Then bolding a bit.
Then italicising a bit.

This will then come out on the site as this:

Test
Writing normally.
Then bolding a bit.
Then italicising a bit.

So, basically the HTML code involved is not complex. Basically you use the < and > signs with a / thrown in at the end.

So, every time you want to start some text in a special way, you put the relevant command within < > signs and then when you want the special treatment to stop you put the same command within </ > signs.
So if you want to bold text, you go your text
If you want to italicise text, you go your text
If you want to underline the text, you go your text

* Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist and member of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. He blogs at Liberal Burblings.

11 Comments

Mick Taylor 3rd Aug '19 - 4:33pm

Great. So how do you add pictures?
Peter Martin 3rd Aug '19 - 4:38pm

I think you can also use ‘b’ instead of ‘strong’. I’ll test that here:

test

and ‘i’ instead of ’em’

test

And you can do all three if you want

test
Peter Martin 3rd Aug '19 - 4:47pm

Maybe not all three!

I think this might work for a pic
Lloyd Harris 3rd Aug '19 - 5:00pm

wow
so exciting
Tom McLean 3rd Aug '19 - 6:23pm

Thanks Paul. Always wondered how to do this.
@Peter Martin – what do you mean “This might work for a pic”?
TonyH 3rd Aug '19 - 9:31pm

Thanks for this Paul.
Paul Walter 4th Aug '19 - 12:20am

Mick

There is a tuition page here for adding images in html:

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp

Indeed, there are a host of html tuition websites. By Googling “html how do I …….” then you should be able to find an answer to most such questions.
Fiona 4th Aug '19 - 7:59am

Exciting,, thanks.

Although the lack of preview facility makes me a bit nervous of using much in the way of code because it’s very easy to miss a bit if you aren’t careful.
Martin 4th Aug '19 - 8:50am

The more interesting question for me is how Paul has managed to show HTML code without it implementing itself.

I do have a lazy tip, which I use if I want to embed a link, which is to go to a Guardian open comment page and write my comment there using their limited HTML facility and then to copy/ paste it onto the LDV comment box. This avoids errors. Without a review facility on LDV public pages this is important.
Paul Walter 4th Aug '19 - 10:27am

Martin

“The more interesting question for me is how Paul has managed to show HTML code without it implementing itself.”

This is because of the genius of the LDV uber tech guru, Ryan Cullen! He works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform!
Peter Watson 4th Aug '19 - 1:23pm

A favourite of mine is the blockquote