<i>

The <i> element is used to set off HTML text, indicating idiomatic expressions, technical terms, taxonomical designations, and so on. This is commonly illustrated by displaying the text in italics.

Note: Original legacy usage of this tag was just to italicize text, but it should now be avoided for solely styling text. Best practice to use CSS for text formatting. The CSS element used to italicize text is font-style.

Syntax

<i>
  <!-- Text which should be set off goes here -->
</i>

The <i> element should only contain text content or other tags meant for text content.

Example

<p>The technical term for this element is the <i>Idiomatic Text</i> Element</p>