Em element
The em element is an HTML element that semantically marks text for emphasis or stress, conventionally rendered in italics by browsers.
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The em element is an HTML element that marks text with semantic emphasis or stress.
- How it is used
- Marks words or phrases that need added emphasis or stress within ordinary HTML text.
- How deep it goes
- Explains semantic purpose, browser rendering, comparison with strong and i, and nesting, but does not detail CSS customization.
- Examples
- Uses an emphasized word in a pie-pastry sentence and contrasts emphasis with important, keyword, and alternative text examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply the em element to mark text that should receive added stress in an HTML sentence.
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The HTML em element marks text that carries emphasis.
- How it is used
- Uses semantic HTML to express emphasis when italic styling carries meaning.
- How deep it goes
- Distinguishes emphasis, alternate voice, specialized text, and purely stylistic italics, while stopping short of implementation detail.
- Examples
- Uses italics, oblique fonts, the <em> tag, the <i> tag, and CSS classes as contrasting examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply semantic HTML to distinguish meaningful emphasis from voice, specialized text, and visual styling.
Related concepts
- italicsproduces · Italics are a typographic style with slanted letterforms used to emphasize or visually distinguish text.
- i elementcontrasts with · The i element is an HTML element that marks text set apart from surrounding prose by a different voice, mood, or semantic role.
- strong elementcontrasts with · The HTML strong element marks content as having strong importance, seriousness, or urgency.
- HTML tagkind of · An HTML tag is angle-bracket-delimited markup that identifies, structures, or marks the boundary of an element in an HTML document.
- u elementcontrasts with · The HTML u element marks text with a non-textual annotation, commonly rendered as an underline.
- browserused by · A web browser is software that retrieves, interprets, and renders web resources, executes supported web content, and enables interaction with web pages and applications.
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