Text and html question ??

Question

Okay soo. I am really stupid and im not sure howto do this

Im submitting a text on a site and i can edit it by putting in an html for bold (<b>), italics (<i>) and so on.

not sure how to put it in though i need italics and i tried putting it before and after the word ( <i>yahoo<i> eg ) but it just made the rest of the word of the text in italics .

so im confused .

help please ??

sorry for any lack of details .

Answer 1

You need a start tag &lt;i&gt; and then a stop tag &lt;/i&gt;

You are just using two start tags.

&lt;i&gt;yahoo&lt;i&gt;

Answer 2

use a slash for closing. &lt;/i&gt;