How to Create Italicized Text with Simple HTML Programming

To improve the readability of your blog entries and Internet articles, you might want to highlight certain words by italicizing them. If you’re using a program that does not add the HTML programming automatically, you’ll be required to do this step yourself. Here’s how.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Find the word that you’d like to italicize. (For this example, we’ll use the word HIGHLIGHT.)

2. 

   Directly before the word, type the series of code shown at left. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) It does not matter if you use a capital “I” or not. (The proper brackets to use are found directly above the comma and period keys, respectively.) This step indicates the point where the italics will begin.

3. 

   Directly AFTER the word, type the series of code shown at left. (Click to enlarge it.) This indicates where the italics will end.

4. 

   For the example above, your code will look like the graphic at left. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)

5. You’ve now created italicized text using HTML.

[MidniteWriter]

on 1/6/2008 If people knew how easy this was, they'd dive right in. Once you start doing italics, even if it's just in comments, it's kind of addictive!