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Originally Posted by JayCeeEll
I don't think it is - is one of the few times the <em> tag is correctly used. The majority of times you actually want <i>, e.g. titles of works, names of ships, foreign words, character thoughts and many others.
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No, The
whole point of html/css is that the presentational aspects are separated from the semantic. <em> indicates empahsis, which may be conveyed in different ways in different situations, eg if someone with impaired vision uses a text-to-speech system to read your book. If you want to italicise text for purely visual reasons you should be using css to do it, the <i> tag is retained purely because it's still so commonly used.