Technical question: Italics when posting stories

[polynices]

Does anybody know how you get italics when you post a story on Literotica?

I use the copy and paste method when I submit a story: I just paste the story into the box and then fiddle with it to make sure the formatting - paragraph breaks and so on - is OK. That's generally satisfactory, except that I always lose any italics I had in my original and I haven't worked out how to re-insert them.

I have tried. I've typed HTML codes into the submission box (either [i followed by /i] or [I followed by /I], with brackets placed appropriately - but it's a nightmare to quote the codes here correctly because, of course, they keep executing). When I go on to the preview page, however, the codes are still there as I typed them. That is, the italic command hasn't been executed.

It has crossed my mind that the code might not be executed until the story is actually posted on the site - i.e. that the HTML works, but further down the line. But I haven't wanted to risk leaving a distracting in a posted story, so I've always gone back and deleted the code. Consequently, I've had to do without italics for emphasis up to now.

Anyway, I'd guess there's a simple solution - and I'd be grateful to anyone who can tell me what it is.

- polynices

 

[Weird Harold]

I have tried. I've typed HTML codes into the submission box (either [i followed by /i] or [I followed by /I], with brackets placed appropriately - but it's a nightmare to quote the codes here correctly because, of course, they keep executing).

That's because you're confusing vB codes with HTML codes. vB codes, like those use in most forum software use square brackets to delimit the codes -- [ and ]

HTML uses basically the same syntax as vB codes but delimits them with andgle brackets (GT and LT signs; <>)

To put HTML codes in your story you need to use <I></I> instead of [ I][ /I].

 

[polynices]

That's because you're confusing vB codes with HTML codes. vB codes, like those use in most forum software use square brackets to delimit the codes -- [ and ]

HTML uses basically the same syntax as vB codes but delimits them with andgle brackets (GT and LT signs; <>)

To put HTML codes in your story you need to use <I></I> instead of [ I][ /I].

Thanks very much, Harold. Now you've told me, it seems bloody obvious, but I've been puzzling over that for about a year - despite the fact that I've actually used the correct kinds of bracketting when I've written HTML for web pages.

I feel slightly foolish, but thanks again.

- polynices