Formatting issues WordPress 3.1.2

[catherine-279388]

The and _formatting tags format the text in the WYSIWYG editor but not in the browser (I've tried in Firefox and Internet Explorer.  It doesn't help if I add non depreciate Html _and Is this a theme Issue?  Is there a way to fix it?  Does anyone know why and are added instead of and ?__

[bemcapaz]

Semantically the and markups are more meaningfull than the and tags, thats the reason for their adoption (its a convention by the W3C)

__If you have access to the .css file of your site you can try adding those two following rules:

em{font-style:italic}

strong{font-weight:bold}

Let me know if that worked out

PS.: If you dont have access to the css files through FTP you can do it by going on Wordpress Admin > Appearence > Editor, On the files on the right look for the Stylesheet (style.css), there you can edit it.****

[catherine-279388]

Thank you for you response.

I've looked at the Style sheet via the Visual editor.  For 'em' and 'strong' I have:

strong {
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #000;
}
cite,
em,
i {
    font-style: italic;
    border: none;
}

Which is identical to the default style sheet I have loaded in my test WP account which does display 'i' and 'b' in the browser.  The above code is within a company theme - style sheet.  I can't see anything wrong!

I'm going to ask the developer for a copy of the theme to put on my dummy site.

Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again

[catherine-279388]

Hello again

A voice from the past.  I've finally managed to install the company WordPress Theme and have a play with the style sheet(s) -

The ‘style.css’ and the ‘editor-style.css’ have the correct code.  But the bold and italics, although displayed in the editor, disappear in the browser.  It doesn’t matter what browser I use.

Any ideas?

Thanks Catherine