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Italics not working

Anyone know why Italics aren't working in signatures?

<i> Italics </i>

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Is...

That the format? Because I just was shown the page for the format today, and I have tried bold , etc, on this site before and it never worked? So have you always been using that code? Is it any different for signatures?

Because you can use this

italics -Minus those spaces...

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Never tried italics before

Never tried italics before on here.
I've always done italics as <i>
but <em> seems to work here and I just noticed in dreamweaver it does italics as em not i, but frontpage does italics as i and kompozer uses a style for italics.
Anyone know what the difference is and why one works here and not the other?
Thanks for the tip on em

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No Problem

Haha, yea, I just firgured out the different format today as well. I'm also wondering why it isn't the basic ...for bold ... for underline and... for italics...

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If you really want the lecture...

...Here it is:
The reason <em> is used instead of <i> and the reason <strong> is used instead of <b> is because it makes the web more accessible.
Think about a screen reader for the blind. It can't communicate that something is bold, but it can give it <em>phasis or <strong> emphasis.
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Interesting how an automatic reader for the blind can translate the character string but not the string . Limitation of the device or the programmer?

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em vs i

<em> is what you should be using for emphasis. <i> is a deprecated tag by the latest HTML and XHTML specs and shouldn't be used anymore. Same deal with <strong> instead of <b>

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Neither

It's just more correct.
The <i> tag is pretty weird, because it's not a content thing it's a styling tag. The <em> tag can be styled with italics plus with CSS you can add how it supposed to sound.

Plus, the W3 said you have to use it, so you have to Biggrin
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