em – emphatic stress - HTML5

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HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language reference)

ⓘ em – emphatic stress # T

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

Permitted contents #

phrasing content

Permitted attributes #

ⓘ global attributes: Any attributes permitted globally.

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; }