Question

Is it possible to create bold text in a MySQL database text table field?

We are putting our articles in our database and I want to create bold titles and subtitles. Is this possible? Thanks

Answer 1

Markdown

I would advise you to use a markdown-style formatting (PHP/.NET), which would mean bold-text would be stored like this:

**I am bold**

Storing HTML

If you can’t use markdown on your project, you can store HTML as well – I would just be very careful about what tags you store. You wouldn’t want somebody posting <script/> tags in your database for instance:

<strong>I am bold</strong>

Late-Styling

Or make all values from the title and subtitle fields bold when you print them on your page:

<strong><?php print $row->title; ?></strong>