Is the italic button broken?

Question

Why is this italic but my text in this answer is not?

Answer 1

mmyers edited my answer and fixed it. Turns out the underscore in the Twitter name "Nick_Lalone" needed to be escaped with a backslash; then suddenly it worked fine.

Answer 2

I suspected because it's a hyperlink, but when I tried it, it worked fine. Make sure the asterisks are matching, either inside or outside the brackets.

Funniest-bug link - I created this link by

• typing the words "Funniest-bug link"
• selecting the entire line
• clicking the link button and filling the box with the URL.
• while the text was still selected, clicking the I button.

And it seems to work fine. Making this Answer a wiki so you can edit/see the raw text. (You might do the same so we can see your text).

I also noticed that I used asterisks both inside and outside my URL brackets, so apparently it doesn't matter where they appear.