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Kids, Don’t Try This at Home

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Mike Glyer

Obviously with WordPress, I write an individual post and the software does everything else. So I’m prepared to struggle with the code in an individual post — using an unfamiliar language, the way I did in freshman Russian. What escapes me is which little bit is suddenly italicizing the text in every subsequent post on the page. It seems as if I shouldn’t be able to wreck the whole page…

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Tero on March 21, 2008 at 1:31 pm said:

If you have an unclosed ‘‘ or ‘‘ tag in your post, that will have the effect you described.
Tero on March 21, 2008 at 1:31 pm said:

…and the bits the system ate were meant to be <em> and <i>.

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