# Is there any way I can bold/italic certain parts of text through blocks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** labels\ **Created:** [May 3, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256 "2021-05-03T12:08:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kartik14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik14/32/44782_2.png) [@kartik14](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik14)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/1 "2021-05-03T12:08:45Z")
Hi, I am thinking of **bold-ing** some particular words in a sentence, just like this - > This **is** a **sample** sentence. You see, I bold-ed some words in a sentence up there - now is it possible to do it through blocks? I tried doing `text` & `text`, but it didn’t seem to work… Do you have any other methods/ideas I can use? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/2 "2021-05-03T12:39:05Z")
I created a workaround but seems too much for too little. [Make the text bold](https://x.thunkable.com/projectPage/608cf1340e1771001116dbd1) Try it. Maybe you can build on the idea. ---
**Author:** ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/3 "2021-05-03T12:49:39Z")
Interesting! Do you know of a way to make certain parts of a label bold/italic? I want to highlight a certain word in my text. ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/4 "2021-05-03T12:53:35Z")
You can use the same idea I used but use the join text block to mix the normal with the bold. If you want to change the typed text then you can make use of `tags or place holders` just like html codes. You will need to create a parsing function. ---
**Author:** ![catsarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/catsarisky/32/100661_2.png) [@catsarisky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/catsarisky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/5 "2021-05-03T13:22:59Z")
That’s a really interesting solution! ---
**Author:** ![kartik14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik14/32/44782_2.png) [@kartik14](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik14)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/6 "2021-05-03T13:30:11Z")
Hi, @muneer! Love your idea, but when I tested it, the bold text compared & placed side-by-side to normal text looks kind of different on iOS - it looks like there are two words with different fonts - ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/9/0/90dd789fd187eed322985a90521d0b306e1bc29c.png) Rather than looking like 2 different fonts, It should be like this - ‘This **is** a **sample** sentence.’ * * * Anyways, I have unfortunately dropped my idea of doing the ‘ **bold** -out specific words in a sentence’ thing for now - so I wouldn’t need it this time 🙂 Thanks for your help! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![codeswept](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/codeswept/32/87755_2.png) [@codeswept](https://community.thunkable.com/u/codeswept)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/7 "2021-05-03T13:47:18Z")
Even I had the same idea… @muneer responded [here](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/4). ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/8 "2021-05-03T13:59:43Z")
@kartik14 @codeswept @catsarisky I just added another `label` in the screen with mixed (normal and bold) using the same function designed earlier. ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/9 "2021-05-03T16:22:05Z")
```auto [b] does this work? [/b] ``` It is BB markup ---
**Author:** ![kartik14](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/kartik14/32/44782_2.png) [@kartik14](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kartik14)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/10 "2021-05-03T16:24:46Z")
@jared I am not sure if I got that - please elaborate 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/11 "2021-05-03T17:45:08Z")
It’s possible to **bold** individual words using [https://yaytext.com/bold-italic](https://yaytext.com/bold-italic) and then copy and paste them into a non-bold sentence. But it doesn’t let you format text as **bold** dynamically using blocks. ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/12 "2021-05-03T19:02:38Z")
This is basically what I did @tatiang I took all the alphabet from a unicode table and use them to make a Thunkable list. This way I can map the characters one to one to convert to **bold**. ---
**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/13 "2021-05-03T19:18:43Z")
Yes, I liked your solution. It just depends on whether or not someone wants to programmatically do this or just copy and paste text into a label. ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/is-there-any-way-i-can-bold-italic-certain-parts-of-text-through-blocks/1260256/14 "2024-11-08T13:22:44Z")