i tag (XHTML 1.0)

italic text style

The i tag is used to achieve an italic text style. The tag is extremely easy to use:

<i>Italic text style</i>

The result looks like this:

Italic text style

The font-style CSS property can be used as an alternative, on any tag with the style, class or id attribute.

Attributes

Attribute	Deprecated	Required	Description
class			space-separated list of classes
dir			direction for weak/neutral text
id			document-wide unique id
lang			language code
style			associated style info
title			advisory title

Event	Description
onclick	a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	a key was pressed down
onkeypress	a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	a key was released
onmousedown	a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	a pointer button was released