# Quoting bold text before comma adds extra space

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 24, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159 "2020-09-24T00:33:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159/1 "2020-09-24T00:33:02Z")

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For some reason, if you have text that is bolded followed immediate by a comma, there’s an extra space inserted between the text and the comma.

To **demonstrate** , here is a sentence.

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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159/2 "2020-09-24T00:33:45Z")

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> [@seanblue](#):
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> To **demonstrate** , here is a sentence.

The above quote has not been modified from the default Discourse behavior.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159/3 "2020-09-24T00:55:23Z")

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Yes this extra spaces around bold and italic bug has been around a while cc @vinothkannans

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159/5 "2020-10-01T22:39:02Z")

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This is now fixed in the PR below

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10803](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10803)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quoting-bold-text-before-comma-adds-extra-space/165159/6 "2020-10-18T01:00:00Z")

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