How to Italicize Text in HTML

Last Updated: April 2, 2020

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
Open a simple text editing program such as either Notepad or WordPad on Windows, or, on a Mac open up TextEdit.
2
Type all preceding HTML text that you want before the italicized text.

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3
Type the italics opening tag, <i>.
4
Type the text that you want to have italicized.
5
Type the italics closing tag, </i>.
6
Type the proceeding HTML text that you want for the remainder of the document.

Community Q&A

Question

I have come across an article that using tag is a depreciated method, is there any other suggested method?

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.