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HTML 5: The Markup Language (ARIA Edition)

ememphatic stress # T

The em element represents a span of text with emphatic stress.

Permitted contents #

Permitted attributes #

global attributes
Any attributes permitted globally.
aria = #
(detailed attribute description to come)

Tag omission #

An em element must have both a start tag and an end tag.

Permitted parent elements #

any element that can contain phrasing elements

DOM interface #

Uses HTMLElement.

Typical default display properties #

em {
font-style: italic; }