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When using html, why do we us emphasis <em>?
I am learning in depth about html and the tutorial I am using has been wonderful but I don't understand why we would use emphasis <em>? I know it emphasis's important text but what kind of text? Are we talking titles or heading or it what we think needs to be emphasized?
3 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
em – emphatic stress: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/em.html
Typical default display properties:
em { font-style: italic; }
HTML 5 <em> Tag: http://www.quackit.com/html_5/tags/html_em_tag.cfm
Ron
- 8 years ago
Aesthetically, the <em> tag will do the same thing as the <i> tag. It italicizes the text it wraps. <em> is used to "emphasize" important text so other programs can refer to its importance, e.g. search engines, screen readers, etc.
- 8 years ago
it is an old way to do things using inline styling but i would recommend learning some css instead of things like that
