How to Create Bold and Italicized Text in HTML

Last Updated: March 1, 2023

When coding HTML documents, it may sometimes be necessary not only to bold a word, but also to italicize the same word. This article will help you create that effect (bold italicize).

Steps

1
Open a simple text editing program such as either Notepad or WordPad on Windows, or, on a Mac open up TextEdit.
2
Type all preceding HTML text that you want before the bold and italicized text.

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3
Open up the phrase you want bold and italicized with the <b> tag.
4
Open up the phrase that you want bold and italicized with the <i> tag.
5
Type the text you want boldfaced and italicized.
6
Type the closing tag for the italicizing, </i>. It's often times better to type the closing tag for the tag that lies inside before and work outwards, to make it easier on the eyes for a coder to recognize what style you are trying to perform.
7
Type the closing tag for the boldfaced portion,</b>.

Community Q&A

Question

What type of language is HTML?

Community Answer

HTML, an abbreviation of the HyperText Markup Language, is its own programming language. Web browsers are capable of reading HTML, from both files in a computer and from a web server, and use the information within the code to display text, images, etc.
Question

Write HTML code do I need to display a text mobile world having bold and italic?

Owen Pritchard

Community Answer

HTML doesn't have the option to write bold, because that is not how Java works. You cannot, but even if you could, it would not change the URL you go to later.