仅使用CSS格式化文本

Question

I run a site where users submit basic news articles. I want to add some formatting features for their submissions.

Is it possible to add custom formatting to text only using CSS ?

For example, user can add:

**This should be bold**

And the text appears bold. Or user adds > at the beginning of the paragraph:

> This could be a lengthy paragraph

And the paragraph is aligned to the center.

Is such thing possible to do?

Answer 1

It's not possible using pure CSS. You have to use Javascript or JQuery or process your custom tags in Server-Side and render them as html and css as you want.

Answer 2

No it is not. You will need javascript or php to replace ** with <b> for example. Otherwise your users would need to put in <b>Hello</b>