# \[B\] showing up as \[b\] on preview **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739 "2011-07-12T13:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/1 "2011-07-12T13:42:28Z")
I have both capitals in this line From \*\*Poster A[\B]'s. Here’s a copy and paste with the removed. From B Poster A \B’s Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/2 "2011-07-12T13:47:24Z")
It’ll usually be the hypogryphical constraint vector. Or maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/3 "2011-07-12T13:48:46Z")
Test post [noparse] **Test Post** **test Post** **Test post** **Test Post** [/noparse] I capitalized to match the capitals of Test Post. T cap means first B cap, P cap means second B cap. Small t and p mean small b. Final was using bold tool. Blocked in noparse tags. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/4 "2011-07-12T13:52:34Z")
More information, if I remove just the first square bracket, I get a capital B. From \*\*Poster A[\B]'s From B]Poster A[\B]'s Placing it in CODE, it also goes back to lower case b. ```auto From **Poster A[\B]'s From B]Poster A[\B]'s ``` ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/5 "2011-07-12T13:52:53Z")
May I ask why you need the capital B? The lowercase one works just as well. **See?** ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/6 "2011-07-12T13:54:17Z")
[noparse]\*\*Just for grins \*\* [A] [a] [/noparse] This appears to be a vB thing, where the **bold** tag is parsed lowercase. Don’t know why, or why it is _displayed_ uppercase in the edit window (when using the bold button). ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/7 "2011-07-12T13:56:20Z")
\*\*Test Post[\B] Bingo! You are using the wrong slash mark. Use / rather than \ and it will parse as bold. \ isn’t recognized as the end stop for the bold. (I didn’t spot that at first. I thought you were using noparse tags, like I did. No, you were using the wrong symbol and so it wasn’t parsing in the first place.) ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/8 "2011-07-12T13:59:04Z")
**Poster A** :smack: Thank you so much! I didn’t even notice that, no idea why it converted my capital B to a lower case b. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-showing-up-as-b-on-preview/588739/9 "2011-07-12T14:01:48Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > May I ask why you need the capital B? The lowercase one works just as well. **See?** I didn’t, I just thought it was the problem because it wasn’t what I typed. My apologies, and thank you all for the help.