<I></I>

Display text using the italic font

Element is used to tell the browser to display the marked text using italics.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
==>>    <I>obvious sarcasm</I>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

Like the B element, this element is used to explicitly control the appearance of the text without saying anything about why we want it in italics. It's logical equivalent is the EM element. The logical element is, of course, preferred by the purists.

HTML 3.0 Draft

Further emphasizes the difference between font style elements and infomation elements.

Attributes common to almost all of the tags permitted in the document body include ID, LANG and CLASS. You probably won't be using any of these tags for a while but I've included them so you know they are coming.

ID: A name to be used as a target for links or for naming particular elements in a style sheet. These take the place of the HTML 2.0 <A NAME="somename">Some Name</A> construct that defines internal document links.
LANG: An ISO standard language abbreviation that defines language specific elements to be used.
CLASS: Used to assign a class name to a tag.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <I ID="topicone" LANG="en-US" CLASS=section>this text in italics</I>

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft IE

Nothing special.

Internationalization

Nothing special.

The Rusk Family . . . "the Legend Continues"

Michael T. Rusk
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