Anyone besides me having trouble with... italics?

Preamble: I really like italics. I like 'em for emphasis (a little more subtle, more elegant, than bold).
I like 'em for what the Manual of Style says they're for -- foreign words, titles of songs movies, etc.
and the BB tags used to work here (whether typed into body text manually, or by clicking the "italics" button in the text editor)...
but a couple of weeks ago, they started to be ignored.
Ignored.
Ignored.
Kinda sucks for an italophile like me.
So, is it just me, my browser... or the forum?
Anyone else having... italics troubles?
Thanks for your attention :-P
I like 'em for what the Manual of Style says they're for -- foreign words, titles of songs movies, etc.
and the BB tags used to work here (whether typed into body text manually, or by clicking the "italics" button in the text editor)...
but a couple of weeks ago, they started to be ignored.
Ignored.
Ignored.
Kinda sucks for an italophile like me.
So, is it just me, my browser... or the forum?
Anyone else having... italics troubles?
Thanks for your attention :-P
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Yep, not working.
Village Idiot of Club Polk
apparently not...
I noticed this the other night, now that I think about it. even though the tags show it, it doesn't display. yeah. weird.
Village Idiot of Club Polk
Of course, in a parallel universe (you know, the one where Spock has a beard & Ringo Starr is a really great drummer*), the "is" in the sentence above is in italics.
* And before you start in on me, in his own, un-flashy way, Mr. Starkey (senior) was a pretty good drummer; he could seriously keep time (which is not something all drummers can do... Keith Moon fairly springs to mind).
Village Idiot of Club Polk
I started having a peculiar problem with italics, which I also like to use for titles and foreign words.
My problem has been that, when I use italics, everything following the word or phrase for which I intended the italicization is also italicized.
Bummer.
Let's try it here with the expression vis a vis.
Well, if this sentence is italicized, I'm still experiencing the problem.
Looks like there was no problem this time.
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I'm just a country moderator, Jim, were those words italicized? Or, just leaning forward?
I think they were Greco-Romanized, Bones.
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I know, I know why we're having italics troubles!
It's cause now there's only one of them left :- (
Ain't that right, Tonyb?
You buncha racists, we wouldn't have radio without that Macaroni guy. And he invented noodles with the cheese as well.
And we wouldn't have Greek olives without the Italics growing them and putting those perminnows in them.
Leave em alone.
And what would Garfield the cat have to eat without the Italics, they invented lazagna.
A great Italic actors like Tony Danza and Russell Crowe. Good movies from them.
Say no to racism.
Now I want a canolli.
:- )
(that would look even better in italics)
I usually use Chrome, which it doesn't work in, but am testing it in Firefox and it seems to be working. I vaguely recall it working on an Android tablet, as well.
Italics is italicised in this message. And so is italicised. And so is italicised. And so is italicised. ...
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Harrumpf.
Wonder what's up with that?
I do not see the italics in the first quote above, though the tags are clearly visible in the quote itself.
I mean, I know Google's morphed into evil incarnate, but... I kinda like(d) Chrome.
(and other forums have no issue with inserted italics via Chrome).
Again, I harrumpf.
I read on a couple of sites that it could have something to do with a CSS override or something like that; can't remember the exact phrasing. The weird this is that when you view the page source, the italics tag shows up. (is that what you were saying as well, Mark?)
It is supported for Chrome, so not sure why it works in IE and Firefox. I used to use Firefox, but it had a wicked memory leak that would consume several GB of memory, so I converted.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_i.asp
I wonder if one of the other similar tags would work.
<em> (emphasized text)
<strong> (important text)
<mark> (marked/highlighted text)
Just -- odd.
But I could quit anytime. Really. I could.
....and Russ, Cannoli's aren't Italian, they're Sicilian, which is debatable their relation to Italians.
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