How to do bold and italic text in Facebook chat

My girlfriend asked me how to do bold and italic text in Facebook chat. I didn’t know, so I did some research and it turns out you can easily add bold text or italics to your Facebook chat by adding small code around it. I guess bold text can help emphasize your facebook chats, and italics can make your text look different. It’s not really a new font for Facebook chat, but it’s kind of cool. Here’s the code to make your text italic or bold on Facebook chat:

Bold text – *surround your text with stars*

Italic text – _surround your text with underscore_

Get it? Put *stars* around your text to bold it, and put _underscores_ to make it italic! Enjoy your new bold and italic text in Facebook chat!

Update – As the very smart Alex pointed out in the comments, _surrounding with underscores_ does, of course, underline the text. Let’s keep looking for the italic markers!



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Comments (65)

 

  1. Light says:

    You can stack the effects as a *_bold underline_* and get both!

  2. alab1314 says:

    For italics, the the command text. This worx most elswhere!

  3. alab1314 says:

    Oops! Command should read text WITHOUT in the arrow brackets!

  4. alab1314 says:

    Naff! Use the left and right arrow brackets to enclose i and /i (beginning and end) of your text. HTH?!

  5. Pete says:

    Basically, due to the different coding used in both Facebook, and Facebook chat, as they are two seperate bodies, merged into a webpage, the text programming is different.

    In Facebook, when writing notes etc, italics is available by using a form of JavaScript … by typing

    Italic Text

    this will work in the main Facebook body, such as notes.

    However Facebook Chat uses a different form of coding, in which italic text, to my knowledge, hasn’t been written. So unfortunately, Italics is not available in Facebook Chat. However I’d love for someone to prove me wrong… Italics would definately be cool

  6. Pete says:

    That should have been read with square brackets …

    like:
    Italic Text

    (but without the spaces in the square brackets)

  7. Connoramma says:

    holy crap. i did the penguin one cuz penguins are my favorite animal//// OH HOT DAMN!!!

  8. abhijeet singh says:

    hahaha bla bla !!!!!!! :putnam:

  9. ITALIC says:

    LOL just use *WORD* and then type with the *italic thingy on* then copy and paste it on facebook its that simple…..

  10. Geraldine says:

    _nice_

  11. justin says:

    the italics doesn’t work. if you know how to use it then just type it with spaces between the characters so it doesn’t shot up as it should in this text. like * bold *

  12. Nixie says:

    THIS IS REALLY AMAZIN!!

  13. jing2 says:

    the italic thing won’t work of course! it will be underlined instead of italic.. tnx for this! :) my friend won’t teach me how.. so i decided to search it myself.. :)

  14. Olivia says:

    _Hi Thanks 4 helping me with my italics_ *i already new how to do bold but thanks anyways *

  15. kenz says:

    how about the font color..?

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