# Small Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 28, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586 "2000-12-28T23:22:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/1 "2000-12-28T23:22:36Z")

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How do you make text small? I didn’t see anything in the vB explanation.

just a [small]guess[/small].

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/2 "2000-12-29T00:10:53Z")

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This was discussed a few weeks ago. I’d summarize, but getting the vB code to show up right is a PITA. (well, ok, a really short summary - you tried “small”, try “sub” or “sup”)

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50415](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50415)

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**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/3 "2000-12-29T04:33:32Z")

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[sub][sup]cool, thanks [/sub][/sup]

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**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/4 "2000-12-29T04:50:43Z")

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And you can combine [sub]sub[/sub] and [sup]sup[/sup] to get [sup][sub]small text[/sub][/sup] on the same line.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/5 "2000-12-30T00:04:07Z")

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**StephenG** :  
That only works on Netscape. I, using MSIE 5.0, only see [sub]subscript[/sub].

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-question/47586/6 "2000-12-30T01:56:23Z")

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This is a strange [sub]test[sub]test[sub]test[sub]test[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]