Text
font-style
Renders text italic. The two value options, italic and oblique are functionally the same. If applied to italic text, it turns it back to normal. This property is inherited.
Example
font-style: italic;Browser support
IE5.5+, FF1+, SA1.3+, OP9.2+
Values
| italic | Makes text appear in italic. |
| normal | Sets the default value. |
| oblique | Makes text appear in oblique format. |
Related properties
- color
- font
- font-family
- font-size
- font-variant
- font-weight
- letter-spacing
- line-height
- text-align
- text-decoration
- text-indent
- text-transform
- vertical-align
- white-space
- word-spacing
Can be used with..
- a
- abbr
- acronym
- address
- area
- b
- base
- bdo
- big
- blockquote
- body
- br
- button
- caption
- cite
- code
- col
- colgroup
- dd
- del
- dfn
- div
- dl
- dt
- em
- fieldset
- form
- h1-h6
- hr
- html
- i
- img
- input
- ins
- kbd
- label
- legend
- li
- link
- map
- noscript
- object
- ol
- optgroup
- option
- p
- param
- pre
- q
- samp
- select
- small
- span
- strong
- sub
- sup
- table
- tbody
- td
- textarea
- tfoot
- th
- thead
- tr
- tt
- ul
- var
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