<em>
Stress emphasis in a sentence; shown in italics by default.
Syntax
<em>stressed text</em>Examples
The stress changes the meaning of the sentence:
<p>I <em>love</em> coffee.</p>
<p>I love <em>coffee</em>, not tea.</p>Notes
<em> is the stress you would put on the words when speaking. For italics without that meaning (terms, titles, foreign words) use <i>, and for purely visual slant — CSS font-style: italic.
See also
- <strong> — Important text; shown in bold by default.
- <b>, <i>, <u> — Highlighting without extra importance: `<b>` in bold, `<i>` in italics, `<u>` underlined.
Related recipes
In the tutorial
- Text formatting — Inline tags for text — strong and em, mark, del and ins, sub and sup, code, kbd and pre, abbr and q.