# Italic, Boldface and Links

**URL:** <https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [June 11, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426 "2014-06-11T18:48:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![WulfyK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/wulfyk/32/9106_2.png) [@WulfyK](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/WulfyK)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426/1 "2014-06-11T18:48:41Z")

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How can I write in italics and boldface on this forum?

And how can I make links to other websites that don’t make the full adress visible?  
For example, let the link to [http://youtube.com/](http://youtube.com/) appear as “see here”.

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**Author:** ![SpaceLesbian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/spacelesbian/32/3340_2.png) [@SpaceLesbian](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/SpaceLesbian)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426/2 "2014-06-11T20:28:42Z")

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I think it’s regular html code. \< i \>Italics\< /i \> (minus spaces) and such. I’m not if links work the same, though.

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**Author:** ![fantom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/fantom/32/8537_2.png) [@fantom](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/fantom)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426/3 "2014-06-11T22:40:16Z")

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Italics is \< i \>text\</ i \> minus spaces

Bold is \< b \>text\</ b \> minus spaces

For links, it’s HTML code, for example

\<-a href=“url”\>Link text\</-a-\>

Minus the dashes -

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**Author:** ![WulfyK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/choiceofgames/user_avatar/forum.choiceofgames.com/wulfyk/32/9106_2.png) [@WulfyK](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/WulfyK)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/italic-boldface-and-links/2426/4 "2014-06-12T15:44:54Z")

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_italics_  
**bold**  
[youtube](http://youtube.com)

Yes, it works!

Thank you, @SpaceLesbian and @fantom !