I element
The i element is an HTML element that marks text set apart from surrounding prose by a different voice, mood, or semantic role.
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The i element is an HTML element that marks text set apart from the surrounding prose by a different voice, mood, or semantic role.
- How it is used
- Marks alternative text or other prose that plays a different role from surrounding text.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the element, shows its HTML syntax, demonstrates browser italic rendering, and distinguishes it from nearby text elements.
- Examples
- Uses a C.S. Lewis title inside a paragraph as the concrete markup example.
- What you can do after
- Apply it in HTML to mark titles or other alternative text for distinct browser presentation.
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The HTML i element marks text set apart from the surrounding text without asserting added emphasis or importance.
- How it is used
- Distinguishes alternate voices and specialized terms while preserving semantic HTML.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the semantic distinction from em and CSS styling, stopping short of implementation detail beyond the basic declaration.
- Examples
- Uses alternate moods or voices, idiomatic expressions, technical terms, and taxonomical text as examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply semantic HTML or CSS according to whether italics convey meaning or serve a purely stylistic purpose.
Related concepts
- em elementcontrasts with · The em element is an HTML element that semantically marks text for emphasis or stress, conventionally rendered in italics by browsers.
- alt-textimplements · Alt text is a text alternative associated with non-text content that conveys its meaningful content or purpose to people who cannot perceive it visually or access it directly.
- italicsproduces · Italics are a typographic style with slanted letterforms used to emphasize or visually distinguish text.
- text-level elementkind of · A text-level element is an inline HTML element that marks semantics or presentation for a span of text.
- HTML tagequivalent to · An HTML tag is angle-bracket-delimited markup that identifies, structures, or marks the boundary of an element in an HTML document.
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