Whether it's italicizing the name of a popular website or some other work, when you are typing up a webpage in HTML, it's sometimes necessary to know how to italicize the text. This article will help you achieve this simple task.

Steps

  1. 1
    Open a simple text editing program such as either Notepad or WordPad on Windows, or, on a Mac open up TextEdit.
  2. 2
    Type all preceding HTML text that you want before the italicized text.
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  3. 3
    Type the italics opening tag, <i>.
  4. 4
    Type the text that you want to have italicized.
  5. 5
    Type the italics closing tag, </i>.
  6. 6
    Type the proceeding HTML text that you want for the remainder of the document.
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Community Q&A

  • Question
    I have come across an article that using tag is a depreciated method, is there any other suggested method?
    Stephen
    Stephen
    Top Answerer
    Using HTML for design is a tad obsolete and clunky nowadays, but it'll work for the most part. However, CSS, is the better way to go. font-style: Italic; would be the code to set a text italic.
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Updated: April 2, 2020
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Categories: HTML
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