Thread: <i>, <em> or <span> for italics ?
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Old 06-20-2020, 02:30 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
But you do not use <em> for letter spacing, small caps, color, underline, etc. You use spans with a class.
You keep focusing on writing with intent to control rendering rather than writing to express, when rendering is supposed to be up to renderers and users of renderers.

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Do you have an example of <em> being used other then to show italics where a span is not normally used?
In a color enabled terminal, the text output HTML renderer lynx uses a different color to render text enclosed in <em></em>.
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