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The HTML   element italicizes all contained text. Note that while it is not officially deprecated, the best practice is to prefer CSS in order to separate presentation from structure. Per HTML5, this element should only be used when italics is prescribed by convention ; to denote the higher importance of a segment of text use an  or   element. For all other uses the CSS  rule is more appropriate.

Attributes
See Global HTML Attributes.
 * Global Attributes

HTML example: