HTML <i> Tag
The <i> tag in HTML is used to display the content in italic style. This tag is generally used to display the technical term, phrase, the important word in a different language. The <i> tag is a container tag that contains the opening tag, content & closing tag.
Syntax:
<i> Contents</i>
Accepted Attributes: This is a Global attribute, and can be used on any HTML element.
Below code examples illustrate the use of <i> tag in HTML.
Example 1: This is a simple example illustrating the <i> tag to make the italic text in HTML.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>HTML i Tag</title></head> <body> <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> <h3>HTML i tag</h3> <div> <p> <i>A Computer Science portal for geeks.</i> It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles </p> </div></body></html> |
Output:
HTML <i> Tag
Example 2: In this example, we have used <i> tag & <p> tag to illustrate the difference in the text appearance while rendering it.
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>HTML Italic Tag</title></head> <body> <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> <h3>HTML i tag</h3> <p>This is normal text written inside p tag</p> <!--HTML <i>(italic) tag is used here--> <i>This text is in italic font style</i> </body></html> |
Output:
Italic font-style using HTML <i> Tag
Example 3: A text can be written in italics using CSS also. When the CSS font-style property is set to italic, then the text can be seen as follows:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head> <title>HTML Italic Tag</title></head><body> <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> <h3>HTML i tag</h3> <!--Example for font-style: italic --> <p style="font-style: italic;"> This text content is in italic font. </p> <h5>Note:This example is only possible when the font-style property is kept "italic" in CSS </h5> </body></html> |
Output:
Setting font-style to italic using font-style Property
Usage:
- Use the <i> tag for words that you want to show differently from the normal phrase for readability purposes
- The tags like <i> and <b> now define semantics rather than typographic appearance. So to display text in italic type, users can use the CSS font-style property.
- Use <i> tag only when it is not marked up with these elements:
Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome 1 and above
- Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge 12 and above
- Firefox 1 and above
- Opera
- Safari
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