How to format comments using HTML

A few people have asked how to format comments. There are three HTML tags that you can use to format your comment posts:

• You can make things italic, by putting <i> before the italic text and </i> after it.
• You can make things bold, by putting <b> before the bold text and </b> after it.
• You can add links, by putting <a href="http://yourlinkhere.com/"> before the text of the link and </a> after it.

Putting it all together, you might end up with something like:

<i>Someone wrote ...

Blah blah blah blah</i>

Excellent point! Did you consider <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blah">blah</a>?

which would come out as

Someone wrote ...

Blah blah blah blah

Excellent point! Did you consider blah?