# Question about font. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 9, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-font/53850 "2001-02-09T23:42:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soup\_Nazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Soup\_Nazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_Nazi)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2001, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-font/53850/1 "2001-02-09T23:42:42Z")
I have a question. How do you make bold, underlined, and italicized print in a post? I have absolutely no clue how to do it, and I’d like some help to make my posts fresher and better looking. Thanks tons. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-font/53850/2 "2001-02-10T00:08:07Z")
Here’s a little reference material: The link at the bottom of this page and at the top of the reply page labeled [vB code](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode). Also, **Louie** made an excellent thread named [vB Codes explained](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50923) which further explains the coding for all kinds of things. There are other excellent threads in this forum for how to do stuff. To answer your question directly though: [**i]this is italics[**/i] = _this is italics_ [**b]this is bold[**/b] = **this is bold** this is underlined = this is underlined [[sub][/sub]sub]this is subscript[[sub][/sub]/sub] = [sub]this is subscript[/sub] [[sup][/sup]sup]this is superscript[[sup][/sup]/sup] = [sup]this is superscript[/sup] There is lot’s of other stuff in the above references, too. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-font/53850/3 "2001-02-10T00:54:59Z")
_ **This is bold, underlined, and italcized. Fnord.** _