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[FrancesScott]

I refer to this in my HTML how to, and it appears to work. But I got a disgruntled comment on my essay (which felt a bit like the person thought I was tech support) saying it didn’t work for them. I’ve asked them to send me the actual code.

But has anyone had problems with this recently? I know it no longer italicizes text.

 

[TheLobster]

I initially wanted to use it in my Christmas story, but in the preview I was getting massive margins at the bottom that were inconsistent with how the same CSS rendered in published stories. It made me doubtful that it's going to render to properly, so I decided to go with an alternative. (The text was just an email subject that a character reads on her phone, so in the end I went with italics and the Unicode symbol for an envelope).

 

[old_prof]

I use it a lot and have seen no problems, other than the unexpected loss of italics

 

[old_prof]

I initially wanted to use it in my Christmas story, but in the preview I was getting massive margins at the bottom that were inconsistent with how the same CSS rendered in published stories. It made me doubtful that it's going to render to properly, so I decided to go with an alternative. (The text was just an email subject that a character reads on her phone, so in the end I went with italics and the Unicode symbol for an envelope).

It definitely screws up in preview. I’ve gotten used to that. I’m not thrilled with what it does with the bottom margins in the final story but it’s not awful

 

[CalBishForNow]

It worked fine for me in my last story for texts, and also in an edit I submitted to my very first story for song lyrics, just for a few more data points. The recent story was rejected on my first attempt for mixing HTML and Word formatting, which was annoying, but when I resubmitted it by copying and pasting the whole thing into the text box, it worked fine.

 

[FrancesScott]

It definitely screws up in preview.

That’s a known deficiency.

 

[FrancesScott]

It worked fine for me in my last story for texts, and also in an edit I submitted to my very first story for song lyrics, just for a few more data points.

Thank you. I think the person who commented made a mistake.

 

[Actingup]

Still seems to work (other than loss of italics). If you're playing tech support, you know you only have one response...

(play until the end)

 

[RejectReality]

It's never processed italics unless you add them yourself at least as far back as 2006. It just added the margins which always had a little too much whitespace top and bottom.

 

[dirk2024]

I used it in a story I published in September. I just checked it and its still fine.

I like having it as an option to make specific aspects of a story, like a letter, stand out.

 

[old_prof]

It's never processed italics unless you add them yourself at least as far back as 2006. It just added the margins which always had a little too much whitespace top and bottom.

It definitely did for me and for @PennyThompson, who told me about them in mid-2025 shortly before @FrancesScott 's excellent how to pointed it out as well.I have a couple of stories that are no longer italicized that were when they first appeared.

Maybe it was an unintended change sometime before that and Manu fixed it late fall/early winter. I have no problem with the current behavior other than the surprise of it changing.

 

[RejectReality]

It definitely did for me and for @PennyThompson, who told me about them in mid-2025 shortly before @FrancesScott 's excellent how to pointed it out as well.I have a couple of stories that are no longer italicized that were when they first appeared.

Maybe it was an unintended change sometime before that and Manu fixed it late fall/early winter. I have no problem with the current behavior other than the surprise of it changing.

Guess it was changed at some point. I haven't used it in ages, and haven't stumbled across anything using it in nearly as long.

 

[Britva415]

I know it no longer italicizes text.

A blockquote implementation which italicizes text is idiotic to begin with.

If Lit eliminated a default italics styling on that element, they were just getting back to a normal implementation which the rest of the web always adhered to.

 

[FrancesScott]

A blockquote implementation which italicizes text is idiotic to begin with.

Reporting the news, not making it.

 

[Britva415]

Reporting the news, not making it.

Great? I wasn’t saying “thanks for fixing it”

But if the news was “it was broken and now it’s not” (which is how I’m interpreting it), thanks for reporting it.

 

[old_prof]

Reporting the news, not making it.

Just occurred to me you might have indirectly been making the news. I suspected at the time that Manu was helping review your piece, which is part of why it took so long. You may have triggered a thought in Many's head that it was broken now. So your piece may have essentially been an effective bug report. As far as Manu was concerned. For many of the rest of us, it's better described as a godsend.