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What Is an "em" Tag/Element?
An "em" element is an inline element that you can use to
specify text with a normal emphasis.
Here are basic rules about "em" elements:
- "em" elements are inline elements.
- "em" elements can not be used at block level.
- Contents of "em" elements will be displayed in italic by most browsers.
- "em" elements will be treated like "i" elements by most browsers.
- "i" elements may not be supported in future versions of XHTML, You should not use "i" elements in your XHTML.
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Here is a good example of "em" and "i" elements:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>EM and I Elements</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>All <em>programmers</em> are playwrights
and all <i>computers</i> are lousy actors.</p>
</body>
</html>
If you save the above document as em_and_i.html, and view it with
Internet Explorer, you will see that contents in both "em" and "i"
elements are displayed in italic as shown below:
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- What Are Inline Elements?
- What Are Commonly Used Inline Elements?
- What Is a "strong" Tag/Element?
- What Is an "em" Tag/Element?
- What Is an "code" Tag/Element?
- What Are "sub" and "sup" Tags/Elements?
- What Are "del" and "ins" Tags/Elements?
- What Are "big" and "small" Tags/Elements?
- What Is a "br" Tag/Element?
- What Is a "script" Tag/Element?
- What Are Other Inline Elements?
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