# Last few posts of a thread displaying as bold where in fact they aren't coded as such
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494
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**Created:** [September 7, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494 "2004-09-07T16:17:30Z")
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### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/1 "2004-09-07T16:17:30Z")
First time it’s happened to me…
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5244067#post5244067)
I even checked by clicking reply on one of the posts…there definitely aren’t any [b] or [/b]'s there…
Not that it bothers me - Just trying to figure out if it’s a personal or board-wide bug
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/2 "2004-09-07T17:22:46Z")
Same for me. IE win 98.
I’ll check the XP box and Mac when I get home.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/3 "2004-09-07T17:55:12Z")
Hmmm…there was a post with an improperly closed bold tag in there; I edited it and closed the tag, and everything now appears correctly. I was under the impression that in the new version of vBulletin improperly closed tags weren’t supposed to “spill over” like that any more, so it’s still a bit weird.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/4 "2004-09-07T18:55:00Z")
If you nest tags improperly, like doing [b]
[quote]
… [/b] [/quote] it seems to cause the spillover bold. Test:
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> [@](#):
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> unclosed bold bit\*\*
blah
blah
blah
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/5 "2004-09-07T18:55:30Z")
I’ve noticed quite a few older (pre-3.0) threads that suffer from permabolding.
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/6 "2004-09-07T19:00:33Z")
Yes, that’s it. We’ll get permabold from now on. For the record, the code I used was:
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[b][quote]unclosed bold bit[/b][/quote]
blah
blah
# blah
The quoted text is not bolded in the original, everything below it is, despite the open bold tag first and the closed bold tag right before the endquote. It _should_ have been [b][quote] … [/quote][/b]
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/7 "2004-09-07T19:05:27Z")
You can’t even get rid of it by a bunch of end tags, see? \*\*\*\*\*\*
[/quote]
blah blah blah
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/8 "2004-09-07T19:34:07Z")
From a different version of VBB 3.0.x I can report that embedding any formatting inside a code, e.g., “[quote=[ b] Gaudere [/b] ]” will corrupt the entire remainder of the thread, formatting the entire thing bold or italics or underscore or font change to whatever was embedded within the code. (This produces amazingly bizarre results when what was embedded was a font change – and I’m sure the Mods. will appreciate my thoughtfulness in not demonstrating what it does! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/9 "2004-09-07T19:34:10Z")
I’m not seeing any out-of-place bolding, including those parts that **Gaudere** specifically said should be. This may be, at least in part, a browser issue. I’m currently using Mozilla Firefox v. 0.9.3. When I view this page in IE, however, I get the permabold. Weird.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/10 "2004-09-07T19:38:54Z")
> [@\*\*Q.E.D.\*\*](#):
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> I’m not seeing any out-of-place bolding, including those parts that **Gaudere** specifically said should be. This may be, at least in part, a browser issue. I’m currently using Mozilla Firefox v. 0.9.3. When I view this page in IE, however, I get the permabold. Weird.
I bolded Q.E.D.'s name within the “quote=X” coding, as a test. Does this post now appear to be perma-bolded in Firefox?
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/11 "2004-09-07T19:40:25Z")
> [@\*\*Q.E.D.\*\*](#):
>
> I’m not seeing any out-of-place bolding, including those parts that **Gaudere** specifically said should be. This may be, at least in part, a browser issue. I’m currently using Mozilla Firefox v. 0.9.3. When I view this page in IE, however, I get the permabold. Weird.
Trying that again – the closing bracked on the emboldening apparently vanished.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/12 "2004-09-07T19:44:11Z")
That’s odd – it appears to see the closing bracket on the [b] as a closing bracket on the [ quote= which is not the case in VBB 3.0.4 (if I recall the version accurately).
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/13 "2004-09-07T19:52:52Z")
We’re still at version 3.0.0, which may be part of the problem.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-few-posts-of-a-thread-displaying-as-bold-where-in-fact-they-arent-coded-as-such/263494/14 "2004-09-07T23:16:40Z")
> [@Gaudere](#):
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(I thought [Posts about music](http://www.stereo.pl/jpg/180/7982.jpg) belonged in **Cafe Society** )
Thanks for lookin into it! It’s good to know there’s one less bug on my end