diff --git a/js/posts.js b/js/posts.js
index 570d60e..37cc619 100644
--- a/js/posts.js
+++ b/js/posts.js
@@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ function urlify(text) {
   let urlRegex = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal|tk|ga))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:@/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gi
   return text.replace(urlRegex,'<a href="$1">$1</a> ')
 }
+function newlineify(text) {
+  let urlRegex = /(\n)/gi
+  return text.replace(urlRegex,' <br>')
+}
+function italicify(text) {
+  let urlRegex = /\*([^\*]*)\*/gi
+  return text.replace(urlRegex,'<i>$1</i> ')
+}
+function boldify(text) {
+  let urlRegex = /\*\*([^\*]*)\*\*/gi
+  return text.replace(urlRegex,'<b>$1</b> ')
+}
 function filterMentions(text) {
   let mentionRegex = /(@[^\s]*)/gi
   return text.replace(mentionRegex,'<span class="mention">$1</span> ')
@@ -27,8 +39,12 @@ document.getElementById("post-btn").addEventListener("click",async function() {
 })
 function filterPost(text) {
   text = escape(text)
+  text = newlineify(text)
   text = urlify(text)
   text = filterMentions(text)
+  text = boldify(text)
+  text = italicify(text)
+
   return text
 }
 function createPost(username,text,time,specialtext) {