You may or may not know this, but you can do limited HTML markup in comments on blogs that run on the Blogger software (*.blogspot.com websites).<\/p>\n
I will occasionally use <\/i> tags (you can use lower-case or upper-case i’s, it doesn’t matter) to italicize text in a comment. I like to do this to another person’s text that I am responding to, so it’s clear the text wasn’t written by me.<\/p>\n
Example: Fine, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n The text above gets displayed in the comment as:<\/span> Fine, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n Well, I noticed when I tried to italicize some text in a comment earlier this week that things are a little different. When I previewed the comment it looked fine, but when I actually published the thing there were no line breaks.<\/p>\n Instead, the comment appeared like this:<\/span> Icky, eh?<\/p>\n Previously, Blogger was converting my line breaks into HTML line breaks, which are represented by the A little sidenote for those who want to know. A line break in an HTML source file does not equal a line break in a browser. Blogger does the heavy lifting of converting the line breaks that you make in your blog posts to HTML line breaks ( So, you have the option of giving up your use of italics in comments, or you can be a little amateur HTML coder and add a Here’s an example how to do it:<\/span> Which will display in a comment as:<\/span> Fine, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n Anyways, I’m a geek. Happy commenting! Feel free to give this a try on this post, you nice people, you.<\/p>\n Try it with and without the You may or may not know this, but you can do limited HTML markup in comments on blogs that run on the Blogger software (*.blogspot.com websites). I will occasionally use tags (you can use lower-case or upper-case i’s, it doesn’t matter) to italicize text in a comment. I like to do this to another person’s … Continue reading A Change To How Blogger Parses Comments<\/span>
What I type:<\/span>
Hey, how’s it going, Splotchy?<\/i><\/p>\n
Hey, how’s it going, Splotchy?<\/span><\/p>\n
Hey, how’s it going, Splotchy?<\/span>Fine, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n
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What I type:<\/span>
Hey, how’s it going, Splotchy?<\/i>
Fine, thanks for asking!<\/p>\n
Hey, how’s it going, Splotchy?<\/span><\/p>\n