{"id":1923,"date":"2010-03-02T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2010\/03\/gtalk-hidden-formatting-codes\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:24:38","slug":"gtalk-hidden-formatting-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2010\/03\/gtalk-hidden-formatting-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gtalk hidden formatting codes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using gtalk from quite a few years and it was just today when i discovered a feature of Gtalk to format the text in there.<\/p>\n<p>There are 3 formatting options for Gtalk that may be used in Gtalk messenger :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bold Text<\/li>\n<li>Italics Text<\/li>\n<li>Strikethrough <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How to do it ?<\/p>\n<p>Write any text in Gtalk and put * before and after the text and it would be written in Bold text.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gtalk_bold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"gtalk_bold\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gtalk_bold\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gtalk_bold_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gtalk_bold2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"gtalk_bold2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gtalk_bold2\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gtalk_bold2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Write any text in Gtalk and put _ (Underscore) before and after the text and it would be written in Italics. Similarly use &#8211; (Hyphen) to get a strike through text effect.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/italics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"italics\" border=\"0\" alt=\"italics\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/italics_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>&#160;&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strikeThru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"strikeThru\" border=\"0\" alt=\"strikeThru\" src=\"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strikeThru_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is very similar to the way you write \u201c: )\u201d which turns to a Smiley for Smile. Although the conversion delay is around a second for this when you type it in text box and when you get the result in the Chat Window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using gtalk from quite a few years and it was just today when i discovered a feature of Gtalk to format the text in there. There are 3 formatting options for Gtalk that may be used in Gtalk messenger : Bold Text Italics Text Strikethrough How to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-tips-n-trix","tag-gtalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}