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**Created:** [July 3, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035 "2016-07-03T23:51:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:**  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/1 "2016-07-03T23:51:48Z")
[bold]This is within bold tags.[/bold]
This isn’t.
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**Author:**  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/2 "2016-07-03T23:53:19Z")
It doesn’t appear to work. Any ideas?
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**Author:**  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/3 "2016-07-04T00:02:51Z")
**Try making the b uppercase B, or perhaps the entire word BOLD.**
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**Author:**  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/4 "2016-07-04T00:54:48Z")
Bold tags are just the letter b. **Bold** = [noparse] **Bold** [/noparse] You can find a list of all supported BB tags here:
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/misc.php?do=bbcode)
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**Author:**  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/5 "2016-07-04T01:16:41Z")
\*\* Lowercase b. \*\*
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**Author:**  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/6 "2016-07-04T01:27:01Z")
Huh. I could have sworn that the HTML tags were the full word, like the quote tag. Either I’m misremembering or something changed.
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**Author:**  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/7 "2016-07-04T01:40:16Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#):
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> Huh. I could have sworn that the HTML tags were the full word, like the quote tag. Either I’m misremembering or something changed.
There’s where you’re confusion comes from. The board doesn’t use HTML tags. It uses BB tags.
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**Author:**  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/8 "2016-07-04T02:57:06Z")
**Uppercase B or lowercase B, it doesn’t matter.**
[.B]Uppercase B or lowercase B, it doesn’t matter.[./b]
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**Author:**  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/9 "2016-07-04T04:20:37Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#):
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> Huh. I could have sworn that the HTML tags were the full word, like the quote tag. Either I’m misremembering or something changed.
I’ve only ever used BB tags, and I may be talking out my ass, but my impression of the difference between HTML tags and BB tags was that while BB uses [these][/these], HTML uses \\.
Also, as **Doug K.** points out, we don’t use HTML here.
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**Author:**  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/10 "2016-07-04T04:53:42Z")
I don’t know that “bold” has ever been valid HTML, either. At least since I started using it in the 90s. “strong” was valid, or “b” but never " bold".
CSS does have “bold” as a valid font-weight. But still…not BB code, or HTML 🙂
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**Author:**  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/11 "2016-07-04T13:33:12Z")
rainbow
Always wanted to try that
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**Author:**  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/12 "2016-07-04T20:32:57Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#):
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> rainbow
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> Always wanted to try that
Yeah, it works, but certain letters are hard to read. I kinda prefer #cccc00 for yellow on white. And I think DarkOrange looks more like orange.
(No, I don’t know why there’s not a DarkYellow.)
rainbow
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**Author:**  [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/13 "2016-07-04T20:44:13Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Yeah, it works, but certain letters are hard to read. I kinda prefer #cccc00 for yellow on white. And I think DarkOrange looks more like orange.
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> (No, I don’t know why there’s not a DarkYellow.)
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> rainbow
Dang, there is an indigo attribute … thanks for the tips
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**Author:**  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/14 "2016-07-05T08:36:11Z")
I use a Firefox plugin that auto-BBCodes for me. This will not help for a Tapatalk user, however.
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**Author:**  [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/15 "2016-07-05T12:18:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I use a Firefox plugin that auto-BBCodes for me. This will not help for a Tapatalk user, however.
No it doesn’t. Which is a pain. They only have 2 BB codes that you can generate automatically, url and img. They have 3 different ways to add photos, besides the image choice. You would think they could find some way to add the bills or italics codes.
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**Author:**  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/16 "2016-07-05T13:09:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I use a Firefox plugin that auto-BBCodes for me. This will not help for a Tapatalk user, however.
Which one? Sounds interesting–if only to look at the code and see how it works, since I probably wouldn’t use it much.
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**Author:**  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/17 "2016-07-05T17:04:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> I don’t know that “bold” has ever been valid HTML, either. At least since I started using it in the 90s. “strong” was valid, or “b” but never " bold".
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> CSS does have “bold” as a valid font-weight. But still…not BB code, or HTML 🙂
Correct. “Bold” is an attribute, first defined for the HTML \ tag. The \ tag later deprecated (and now changed in HTML5 as a semantic tag). The original intent of \ was replaced by \.
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**Author:**  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-html-tags-from-tapatalk/759035/18 "2016-07-05T22:41:57Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Which one? Sounds interesting–if only to look at the code and see how it works, since I probably wouldn’t use it much.
[BBCodeXtra](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bbcodextra/)