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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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