Italic type
quotation marks.
- The names of ships.
- Foreign words.
- Words used as words.
If something within a run of italics needs to be italicized itself (for example, the name of a ship within a sentence already italicized for emphasis), the type is switched back to non-italicized ("Roman") type.
Italic type can be produced in HTML through the use of the <i> tag, although this usage is deprecated in favor of CSS solutions (see below). When an author wants to indicated emphasized text, which is often rendered in italics, they should use the <em> tag, though this should not be relied on to render in italics. Italic type is achieved in CSS by using the statement font-style: italic;
In media where italicization is not possible (such as a typewriter or handwriting), underlining is typically used instead.
