Did you know that you can format comments on YouTube in the same way you can for Microsoft Office documents? Read on to find out how to make your YouTube comments stand out with just a few extra symbols.
The 3 YouTube Comment Effects
YouTube now allows users to post comments with three different types of text:
1) Bold
2) Italics
3) Strikethrough
People can get very creative in the YouTube comments section, and these YouTube comment effects can help get your point across effectively. It’s precisely why we bold and italicize in Word and Excel documents:
• You bold a word or phrase to make it stand out on a page.
• You italicize words to emphasize an important word.
• You use strikethrough to revise something with the intention of leaving the initial wording there. People also use this when they want to make a sarcastic joke.
(e.g. “Mom: Do you have any homework to do?” Son: I actually have a big project due next week, but I think I’m going to wait until the last minute like I do for most of my assignments. Nope.)
How to Add Special Formatting to YouTube Comments
When you type a comment, if you put certain symbols around a piece of text, you can add special effects to them.
Here’s the special code you need to add around the words:
• To bold a word, put *asterisks* around it.
• For italics, use _underscores_.
• For strikethroughs, put -hyphens- (or dashes) around the text.
Your sentences will appear like this once you insert these special symbols:
• To bold a word, put asterisks around it.
• For italics, use underscores.
• For strikethroughs, put hyphens (or dashes) around the text.
Here’s a video from YouTube Help that explains all of this in video format.
And That’s It!
Have any questions on YouTube comments, or anything else regarding YouTube? Post a comment or question and do our best to help you. Unfortunately, we don’t have these special effects, but we promise to get back to you.
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this does not work
Well, if you wish a word to be in bold, it needs to be like this:
*overlord*. You need to have a space between the * & the next word. So say, you cannot type it in as (((*overlord*))) and overlord turn out bold. You’ll end up with the word featuring like this, (((*overlord*))).
BUT, if you were to add a space between the final ( and after each *asterisk, your word would indeed show up bold.
Thanks for that small but important detail—the space. I had been able to get it to work sometimes, but other times only the asterisk or underscore itself would show up. Didn’t know about the space necessity.
Well I use the *word* space and it is very random as to which words will show up bold or with just the * around them. There is nothing consistent about this. I make sure there is a space after the *.
Any reason for this?
Is there a space Between them like (* this*), (*this *) or (* this *) as this gave me trouble until I realized it should be (*this*)
OK got it, you need a space even if it is a punctuation mark.
It has to be space *word* space punctuation mark/word or anything.
I can confirm that this method does NOT work. I typed this: “My photo was taken in *2016* by me”. But all I get is the same as here, just the year between asterisks. The 2016 does NOT turn out bold.
Wait. I tried again, this time with a word, instead of a string of ciphers. And THEN it works. Strange though that the method fails with ciphers.
I don’t understand the comments that these methods don’t work. All I have done was type the asterisk then my text and punctuation then another asterisk and it comes out in bold just fine.
or just the asterisks placed outside of the parenthesis
His/Her intentions were in the right place, but, they always neglect to give you the missing piece to the puzzle. You nee to have a space in front of the asterisks (whichever code) and after, otherwise it’s not going to work.
I’m always amazed when someone looks to help but misses a huge part of the process.
Now I’ll help you out *need*
no i dont need a space for bold etc letters on you tube
when i use a space it doesn work on YT
Got it?
It is so stark staringly obvious that it should not need to be mentioned!
If you do not leave a space, then it is part of the previous word and obviously will not work as a symbol to make the text bold or italic
It will work, but you need spaces around the whole thing: as in, you type (space)(asterisk)word(asterisk)(space) and then continue. The asterisk (or underline or hyphen) cannot touch a period or comma or letter or anything else. Hope this helps.
Is there an “Underline” code to emphasize text? I’ve tried a few likely candidates “u”, Capped “U”, etc., but no luck.
I even tried a thin Sharpee, which worked fine on my screen, but was not transmitted to my intended receiver.
It does
um…………………………………………. it does
It does on youtube
you don’t do (example here): *I am the best youtuber*. its *I* *am* *the* *best* *youtuber*
*I am the best youtuber* WOULD work.
*I am the best youtuber* but adding any non-space character directly beside either asterisk will make it not work and be treated as is.
*I* *am* *the* *best* *youtuber* of course works but do the easy way instead and save that for situations like
_I_ *am* _the_ *best* _youtuber_
and save yourself a lot of time and effort.
Yes it absolutely doea. I just did it
Yes it does. I use it reguarly on comments it only works on YouTube
yes it does you do this
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or this is _cool_ or
this is -wrong- I mean right
*it only works in places like YouTube etc*
It needs to be placed one word at a time: like this: *hell* *is* *Somewhere* .
After a bit of thrashing around here’s what works circa 2019. Put a space after the last word in normal text. Then the “operator” (underline or asterisk). Do not space but simply type the desired word. Then the operator again. Then space and the remaining text. So, it looks like this:
Make me *bold* or die trying.
I was having trouble. Got a comment on it. The “*secret.”* is to put a stop before the the final asterisk.
So I tried *THAT.* and it worked, of course the bold period appears. Then I tried “*secret.*” That did not work. So I did an edit, tried *”secret”.* The quote marks apparently interfere somehow regarding boldfacing a quote.
I hadn’t thought of using a space as the stop, so I will check that out. Thanks for the suggestion.
It works for me
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I found out bolding accidentally when I needed to emphasize one word while I was commenting.
Can you underline?
YouTube doesn’t offer this feature (Underline) in comments yet. However, if you pasted (from clipart i.e copy/paste) a text that contains underlined words/characters into your comment, YouTube will keep them underlined.
So, all what you need to do is typing your comment in Word document (or any editor you have), underline whatever you want, copy it, paste it into your comment. And here you go!
It most certainly does
I just shared this on twitter, and this really helped, I accidentally came across boldifying text, and strikethrough-ying text, but I never once how to italicize words! Thanks! (sorry, I make weird words) Have a great day everyone! :3
This really helped, and because of that, I shared this to twitter! It’s funny, because I accidentally came across boldifying text, and strikethrough-ying text, but I never once how to italicize words! Thanks! (sorry, I make weird words) Have a great day everyone! :3
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THANK YOU!!! Always wanted to know how to do this!
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Thanks for your comment.
Is this feature available in phones/Tabs? I tried to edit a comment by trying asterick to make some word Bold but it didn’t work.
Hi Jessica,
Yes, the features should be able to work on both mobile phones and tablets.
Make sure that the text you’re trying to bold is in between two asterisks… *LIKE THIS*
Hope it works!
Did you do
*(Your word)
Or
*(Your word) *?
It depends on what you did
Wow now I know why my comments got strikethrough. Thanks for sharing!
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One note for users of these techniques. It seems you can’t have anything but a space after the last _Special Formatting_ symbol. Add a single space if the highlighted word is followed by a period, parenthesis, quote mark, etc.
Yes! Be careful of other punctuation marks!
A comma or period immediately following a bolded, struckthrough or italicized word will confuse the comments processor. I tried putting the punctuation marks inside the formatting marks and had some success, but the results were inconsistent. (weird, huh). I’m using trial and error to see if I can figure out what rules are going on inside the comments processor.
this is great… I’ve always wondered how it was done as back in the early days of youtube before it was sold to google it was [b ]bold[ /b] and that is how it was back in the aul days.
What about supertext and subtext?
Hi Ron,
Do you mean to ask how you can write in sub-text and super-text on YouTube?
I can’t find a way to comment on videos since YouTube did a format change about a month ago. There is just no way to comment on the video unless the poster makes a comment and you can reply to that. However if the poster has not made a comment there is no way to make an original comment on a YouTube video now. All you can do is reply to other comments. You can’t just make your own comment. There use to be a comment button you could click on that would allow you to comment. It is GONE! How do we comment now?
Hi Tom,
We suggest you cross-check this as the ‘add a comment’ section still exists. You can be the first to comment, even if the poster hasn’t made a comment.
I wonder this as well. I guess it’s not possible.
-thanks for helping- *me youtube* _i never knew how to do it_
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I realized that there’s a little doink at some point, let me show you an example.
*Typing1* (… text …) *Typing2*
Of course, I would like to have both Typing1 and Typing2 in bold, but since there’s a star* at the end of Typing1 and another at the beginning of Typing2, all the text between those two words will be in bold.
Any options to counter that ? I don’t know, something like : Typing1 text Typing2
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This rlly helped! But iv seen youtubers post words, not videos or live streams! But words and sometimes pictures and surveys, I would like to know how to do this because I can’t seem to figure it out..
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What about creating an underline like this in a comment
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How do you do that, besides typing it out?
Strikethrough never seems to work?
-fail-
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These work, but only sometimes and often in the same comment! Youtube’s messed something up again.
Sometimes the formatting doesn’t work at all.
Sometimes some will but others won’t. I wanted to put a certain word in bold and have another part in italics. The word appeared bold, but the italics wouldn’t work until I edited the comment and deleted the underscores, posted the change, then edited again to add the underscores again.
Sometimes editing the comment like that will have the bold words stop working and the italics will work.
Strikethrough has only worked once in the like 5 times I’ve tried to use it.
It’s messed up and barely worth even attempting to get working anymore.
STOP!
This will work: *This will work* .
This won’t: *This won’t*.
The reason this first works, and the second doesn’t is A NON-SPACE character appears immediately after the string. So, if you put a PERIOD, or COMMA, or QUOTE MARK, or EXCLAMATION or ANYTHING other than a space after the “*” or the “_” or the “-” it WILL NOT WORK. Stop whining and claiming “it doesn’t wo-o-o-o-o-rk!”
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This doesn’t work anymore. Putting _underscores_ around a world results in it being both italics and strike-thru.
_italics_ worked when I refreshed the page. I guess there was a cache error that stored info about the strikethru I’d used earlier on that page.
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Can you do bold text on whole sentences or do I have to do asterisk’s on every word on youtube just to highlight a main point for eg
I went to the shop today.
*I went to the shop today*. I did this on youtube just to make the sentences come out in bold but this did not work.
*I*went*to*the*shop*today*. Am I supposed to do the bold texting like this on youtube just to bold text a certain paragraph?
Can anyone show me what is the proper way to bold text on youtube for whole paragraphs?
Maybe try reloading the page, bc *I went to the shop today* should work to make all of it bold.
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Hi. is there anyway to write comments in youtube from right to left? something like this codes or anyway?
It does work
It works fine. Remember just to do not put any symbol after ending “*”, “-” or “_”.
Right: *example* .
Wrong: *example*.
Right: -example- .
Wrong: -example-.
There is a space before the next symbol from ENDING “*”, “-” or “_”.