# Cannot make text bold in the middle of a word with asterisks

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 16, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183 "2014-12-16T16:11:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![locallunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@locallunatic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/locallunatic)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183/3 "2014-12-16T19:51:35Z")

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The problem is that the little editor thingy uses markdown. For example:

This is a de **mon** stration where I highlighted “mon” in that word and hit the bold button in the editor.

To do that properly you can use HTML like so:

This is a de **mon** stration where I bolded “mon” in that word using HTML.

As the broken one is how markdown is supposed to work the formatting buttons should not use markdown when they are inserting said formatting.

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