While perhaps obvious to some, there are a couple commands you can use to add simple font formatting to the messages you send via Facebook chat. While there’s nothing fancy just yet, I suspect the platform will slowly evolve to contain other formatting options as time goes on.
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- For bold text, enclose words in asterisks. (e.g. *this will become bold text*)
- For underlined text, enclose words with underscores (e.g. _this text will be come underlined_)
I’ll be sure to update this post as more options become available. In the meantime, enjoy using your new found knowledge!
#1 by zach - July 7th, 2009 at 08:48
but how do you get italics?!?
#2 by Matt - July 8th, 2009 at 21:35
zach: it seems so far that there is no way to get italics displayed in facebook’s chat system. hopefully they’ll introduce that functionality sometime in the near future!
#3 by bolamix - August 2nd, 2009 at 16:36
hi, just a comment, if you want to combine the two, *_text_* works but not _*text*_
Funny to see how many blogs mention FB chat formatting
#4 by Omega - September 5th, 2010 at 22:48
How do I buzz on facebook?