HTML Element: <em>
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The HTML <em> element is a phrase element indicating
emphasised text. Often it is used to italicise text, but ideally this should be
done using CSS.
The attributes
it can take are HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes.
To create or access such
an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is
shown here.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<em>italic text</em>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("EM");
x.textContent = "italic text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("italic text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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