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Originally Posted by frabjous
It's considered very bad form in HTML to have the scope of tags overlap at all. Something of the form <p><i>...</p>...</i> should never exist. Probably it would mean that the HTML in question wouldn't pass validation tests.
So if you have multiple italicized paragraphs, you should have something like:
<p><i>Paragraph one ..</i></p>
<p><i>Paragraph two ..</i></p>
or better:
<p style="font-style: italic;">Paragraph one</p>
<p style="font-style: italic;>Paragraph two</p>
(Or the same by means of a CSS class and an appropriate stylesheet.)
Something like:
<div style="font-style: italic;">
<p>Paragraph one</p>
<p>Paragraph two</p>
</div>
might be OK, but it might have other issues, so I'd steer clear of it. |
I think for a long time I just got used to huge blocks of text being converted to italics if you forgot to close them off so I had thought that's how they were supposed to work. (and it still works like that in web browsers)
Thanks for the clarification. It looks like I'll have to watch out for multiple paragraphs with italics and make sure I check the italics after converting to HTML.