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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.
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1Open a simple text editing program such as either Notepad or WordPad on Windows, or, on a Mac open up TextEdit.
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2Type all preceding HTML text that you want before the italicized text.Advertisement
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3Type the italics opening tag, <i>.
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4Type the text that you want to have italicized.
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5Type the italics closing tag, </i>.
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6Type the proceeding HTML text that you want for the remainder of the document.
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QuestionI have come across an article that using tag is a depreciated method, is there any other suggested method?StephenTop AnswererUsing 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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