How to Make to Text Bold or Italic in Reviews

[Scott]

Regular text. 3 out of 5. Regular text.

You go it!

[Scott]

I will leave this topic here and open for users who still want to know how to use BBCode to make text bold or italic when posting in the forums.

However, there is no longer any requirement to make anything bold or italic in reviews done via the Review Team.

In times past, it was considered a grammar error to not put a book title in italics. That's no more. Times have changed. It's now considered just as correct to put a book title in quotation marks.

Likewise, it use to be required to put the rating in bold print in the review, but we removed that requirement from the Guidelines many months ago.

Feel free to play around in the replies this topic to get the hang of BBCode, but if you can't figure it out or don't want to bother with it, don't worry about it all.

There's never any strict need to put anything in italic or bold or underline or different colors or bigger or smaller.

Those are just cool tricks that tech savvy people can use if desired. Like a smilie or emoji:

[Seda Dogan]

Can you tell me step by step How can I dont this ay Phone or computer. I cant not figure out this problem. For example I write this post the is option to doing this. But rewiew part there is no option to do that.

[Sanya Zuberi]

bold.
italics.

[Sharmeen Javed]

I'm really getting confused over how to bolden or make my text italic. Do I press any of the buttons above. That is, the 'B' or 'I' buttons?

@Aniza23 The detailed instructions are in the first post of this topic to which you are replying.

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[Scott Robertson 1]

To make text bold, you have to use the following code:

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Regular text. [b]Text you want bold.[/b] Regular text.

The above will display as follows:

Regular text. Text you want bold. Regular text.

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Similarly, to make text italic, you use the following code:

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Regular text. [i]Text you want italic.[/i] Regular text.

The above will display as follows:

Regular text. Text you want italic. Regular text.

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For more info about the codes, read here: wiki-how


If you are having trouble making text display as bold or italic, please reply to this topic with the example sentence: "Regular text. Bold text. Regular text."

Do your best to make the words "bold text" bold. This way I can see exactly what you are doing and why it is not working for you.


If you don't include the sentence "Regular text. Bold text. Regular text." then your post will be ignored. I'm not saying that you have to bold the text correctly to get a reply, but I am saying you have to to include the three-sentence six-word example text so that I can exactly what you are doing

We can't help you if we can't see what you are doing.

Hi, I have been trying to submit my book review for preview but I keep getting the message
"The following issues must be fixed before you can submit this review: You need to write the rating of the book within the review in the format 4 out of 5. You did select the rating in the menu below the review, but you need to also actually write it in the review."

I have typed my rating into the review as required and tried several different places and ways using bb code to score it as a 4 out of 5 and typing the title in italics. It shows the rating in bold in format required as well as title in italics but I still get the same fix errors message. Can you advise please?

[Jackline Chepkurui]

Hello I am not getting it I am new here.Please explain to me how to put bold and italics.

[Amna Liskani]

I'm having trouble to get bold text code please help me.

[IFEANYICHUKWU OBIORA]

Three times I finished typing my review, and thrice the save draft button and preview is not coming up making me to start all over again typing my review. And there is network on my phone. Pls what's the problem?

[Nnenna Igwebuike]

Please have finished reviewing the book,and submitted but I got a disapproved reply.I think the problem is making my post bold or italics.

[ahink5721]

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Testing
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[MAKAH]

ITALICS
BOLD

[Maria Lazar]

Text bold

[Mavis Kurosaki]

regular text. bold text . regular text

[Sylvia Strydom]

I have corrected this review multiple times with the correct words in bold and I keep getting an error email