# Is there an option to use emphasized text in games?

**URL:** <https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894>\
**Category:** ChoiceScript Help\
**Created:** [August 20, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894 "2016-08-20T11:08:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yuvalbab](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/yuvalbab/32/16784_2.png) [@Yuvalbab](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Yuvalbab)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/1 "2016-08-20T11:08:33Z")

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As the title says. Is there a way to do _this_ in games?

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**Author:** ![Bugreporter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/bugreporter/32/19335_2.png) [@Bugreporter](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Bugreporter)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/2 "2016-08-20T11:19:54Z")

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Yes.

> **[Text formatting](https://choicescriptdev.fandom.com/wiki/Text_formatting#Italic_text)**
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> Text can be formatted and stylized very easily in ChoiceScript, which supports bold and italic text, as well as hyperlinks. You can use italic text for any narrative text,\*choice#Options text, and for such as section headers on your Stats screen. You...

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**Author:** ![Eric\_Moser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/eric_moser/32/259257_2.png) [@Eric\_Moser](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Eric_Moser)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/3 "2016-08-20T12:57:49Z")

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You can also use bold with the [b] and [/ b] tags.

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**Author:** ![Snowpanther](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/snowpanther/32/16473_2.png) [@Snowpanther](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Snowpanther)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/4 "2016-08-20T13:17:58Z")

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And both bold and italic with ```  
 Text

```

```

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**Author:** ![Eiwynn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/eiwynn/32/221334_2.png) [@Eiwynn](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Eiwynn)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/5 "2016-08-20T13:25:43Z")

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> [@Snowpanther](#):
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> And both bold and italic with ```  
> Text
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> ```choicescript
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> ```

My story always seems to mess that option up.

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**Author:** ![Vendetta](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/vendetta/32/533_2.png) [@Vendetta](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Vendetta)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/is-there-an-option-to-use-emphasized-text-in-games/19894/6 "2016-08-21T07:21:12Z")

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> [@Eiwynn](#):
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> My story always seems to mess that option up.

Can’t think why that would be, unless you’re missing one of the closing ‘ **/** ’ slashes? Even if you use the closing tags the “wrong” way around, e.g.

```choicescript
[i][b] Text [/i][/b]

```

I believe CS would still display it properly, provided the actual syntax is correct.

An aside: this is actually just one of the many ‘little touches’ I like about CSIDE’s dedicated (i.e. ChoiceScript-specific) Code Editor. In that, Ctrl-B / Ctrl-I will wrap any selected narrative text with the appropriate formatting tags for displaying in CS, and if no text is currently selected those hotkeys will insert the tags where the cursor is, and with the cursor itself re-positioned _between_ the start & end tags ready to simply type your formatted word or phrase.