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
// Inline way to make italic text in html file
<i> Now content is Italic </i>
// Use in external style.css file to make italic
i {
font-style: italic;
}
Usage
- Use the <i> tag for words that you want to show differently from the normal phrase for readability purposes.
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These semantic elements give contextual significance to text, while
<i>primarily focuses on the text’s appearance. - Use <i> tag only when it is not marked up with these elements:
Accepted Attributes
The <i> tag is also supported by Global attribute and Event Attributes in HTML.
Example 1: This is a simple example illustrating the <i> tag to make the italic text in 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>
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Output:
HTML Tag
Example 2: In this example, we have used <i> tag & <p> tag to illustrate the difference in the text appearance while rendering it.
<!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>
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Output:
Italic font-style using HTML 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:
<!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>
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Output:
Setting font-style to italic using font-style Property
Supported Browsers
- Google Chrome 1 and above
- Microsoft Edge 12 and above
- Firefox 1 and above
- Opera
- Safari