# Visual formatting in comments

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412 "2019-10-22T13:18:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![trscavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/trscavo/32/3386_2.png) [@trscavo](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/trscavo)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412/1 "2019-10-22T13:18:07Z")

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Some comments exhibit visual formatting. For example, binomial names are sometimes italicized in comments. How is this done?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

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**Author:** ![schoenitz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/schoenitz/32/56_2.png) [@schoenitz](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/schoenitz)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412/2 "2019-10-22T13:43:13Z")

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html markup:

```auto
<i>italics</i>
<b>bold</b>
```

_italics_  
**bold**

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**Author:** ![alexis\_orion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/alexis_orion/32/30298_2.png) [@alexis\_orion](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/alexis_orion)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412/3 "2019-10-22T14:49:21Z")

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for more of this these html tags, check out: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/useful-html-tags-for-inaturalist-comments-and-other-text/6198](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/useful-html-tags-for-inaturalist-comments-and-other-text/6198)

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**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412/4 "2019-10-25T00:35:40Z")

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Closing to redirect any further inquiries to the tutorial linked above.

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**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/visual-formatting-in-comments/7412/5 "2019-10-25T00:35:46Z")

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