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Author Topic: Question about adding italics into text???  (Read 3321 times)

Ruby Maye

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Question about adding italics into text???
« on: August 15, 2008, 09:55:31 PM »
okay this is probably a stupid question but please bare with me. i'm still sort of new to this sort of thing...okay, i know how to put in italics into the text of my story but how do i italicize the text in parts so that it doesn't affect the rest of it? (does that make sense? lol)

i know that by placing this code <i> within my writing it will italicize the text, but then when i go back to preview it, it italicizes the text after the code. i only want to italicize one part of my story.

sorry for my incompetence lol.

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Re: Question about adding italics into text???
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2008, 09:57:49 PM »
you need to also put a </i> After you're done.
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Re: Question about adding italics into text???
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 09:38:19 AM »
oh okay...thank you! haha that was easy enough!
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Re: Question about adding italics into text???
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 06:39:28 PM »
I have a similar problem in that it doesn't italicize when I use the code, so I just use the editing tools at the bottom and highlight the part I want italicized and then click the button. Works like magic and involves less coding. lol
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Re: Question about adding italics into text???
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2008, 06:45:38 PM »
^ That's what I use as well.
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Re: Question about adding italics into text???
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2008, 10:43:53 PM »
Go us! ;D
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