Font changes: bold, italics, underline, strike through (basic markup)

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You can include different font styles in your comments by using "mark up" (basically "codes" that tell the program how to change the font).

The four styles are:

* bold
* italic
* underline
* strike through

The language used on many web pages to do this is called HyperText Markup Language or (HTML) which uses "tags" (code letters enclosed in angle brackets < >).
The tags are called "opening tags" and "closing tags" and look like this:

<x> </x>

It's fairly intuitive, and the "codes" for the styles are as follows:
<b> </b> bold
<i> </i> italic
<u> </u> underline
<s> </s> strike through

The first thing to remember is that you must surround the text that you want to change with the mark up, in other words: put the opening tag <x> before the text you want to change, and the closing tag </x> after.

Here is a basic sentence.

If you want to write a sentence in bold font you need to type this:

<b>Here is a basic sentence.</b>

which will make your sentence look like this:

Here is a basic sentence.

Just change the 'b' to 'i'

<i>Here is a basic sentence.</i>

and you get this:

Here is a basic sentence.

And the tags can be combined:

<b><u>Here is a basic sentence.</u></b>

Which gives you this:

Here is a basic sentence.

In this case you must be careful not to invert the tags.
They must go in this order:
<b><u>xxx</u></b>
Not like this:
<b><u>xxx</b></u>

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