# Italics and bold in posts not showing on site

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/italics-and-bold-in-posts-not-showing-on-site/4782>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 2:51am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/italics-and-bold-in-posts-not-showing-on-site/4782 "2020-07-29T02:51:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![chuckhoupt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/chuckhoupt/32/523_2.png) [@chuckhoupt](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/chuckhoupt)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/italics-and-bold-in-posts-not-showing-on-site/4782/4 "2020-07-30T00:14:54Z")

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> [@OmneBonum](#):
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> This is even the case when I use html tags.

You might check to see if the HTML tags appear in the generated HTML in the `_site` folder. That would tell you if the tags are being stripped somehow. If the tags are present, then possibly it is a theme CSS issue.

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