HTML Academy
The text-decoration property, underlining as well as other effects
Typography16/20
Back to the list of tasks
  • 1. The font-size property
  • 2. Relative font size
  • 3. The line-height property
  • 4. Relative line height
  • 5. The font-family property
  • 6. The font-weight property
  • 7. The text-align property, horizontal text alignment
  • 8. The text-align property does more than just align text
  • 9. The vertical-align property, vertical text alignment
  • 10. Use of the background in typography
  • 11. The color property, text color
  • 12. Using margins to format the text
  • 13. The white-space property, space management
  • 14. Assignment of styles to preformatted text
  • 15. The text-decoration property, underlining as well as other effects
  • 16. The font-style property, italics
  • 17. The text-transform property, character case
  • 18. Shave space off the footer
  • 19. Summary of “Typography”
  • 20. Test: Designing an article
The text-transform property, character case
  • Sign up
  • Log in

Loading…
Everything will be ready in few seconds

  • Theory
  • Theory
  • Comments

The font-style property, italics

You can specify the font face using the font-style property. Here are its basic values:

  1. normal — Normal font face;
  2. italic — Italics font face.
  3. oblique — Slanted font face.

One question that you may have is: what is the difference between italics and slanted text?

If you set the value to italic, the browser will try to find a separate italics font face for the characters for the given font. Some fonts specify a separate set of italics characters.

If there are no separate italics characters in the font, then the browser will make the text slanted, simulating italics. This is the equivalent to specifying the value font-style: oblique for the text.

Let’s reinforce this theoretical knowledge with some practical exercises.

Comments

  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The website of a beginning coder</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <header> <p class="page-title">Blog</p> <nav class="blog-navigation"> <a href="index.html">Return to home</a> </nav> </header> <main> <article> <h1>Day Nine. <span class="italic">Or more precisely night</span></h1> <time datetime="2018-11-27T03:00">03:00</time> <p>Suddenly I woke up <time datetime="2018-11-27">tonight</time> because I had a nightmare: <i>what if people suddenly no longer needed coders, and soon everything is done by robots</i>?</p> <p>“What a <em>beautiful</em> thought, ” I thought, and I rolled over and went to sleep.</p> </article> <aside class="partnership"> Your ad could go here </aside> </main> <footer> Website footer </footer> </body> </html>
CSS
body { padding: 0 30px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: #222222; background: #ffffff url("img/bg-page.png") no-repeat top center; } h1 { font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; } h2 { font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; } a { color: #0099ef; text-decoration: underline; } del, ins { text-decoration: none; } del { color: #ff4400; } ins { color: rgb(105, 178, 83); } pre, code { font-family: "Courier New", "Courier", monospace; color: #3632ad; background-color: #fafaff; border: 1px solid #c6c4f4; border-radius: 4px; } pre { padding: 5px; } code { padding: 2px 5px; } pre code { background-color: transparent; border: none; border-radius: 0; } .page-title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 36px; line-height: 42px; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; text-align: center; } .avatar-container { text-align: center; } .avatar { border-radius: 50%; } .blog-navigation { margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 20px; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4470c4; border: 5px solid #2d508f; } .blog-navigation h2 { margin-top: 0; } .blog-navigation ul { padding-left: 0; list-style: none; } .blog-navigation li { margin-bottom: 5px; } .blog-navigation a { color: #ffffff; } .skills dd { margin: 0; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: #e8e8e8; } .skills-level { font-size: 12px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4470c4; } .skills-level-ok { background-color: #47bb52; } .partnership { margin: 30px 0; padding: 30px; text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background-color: #4a87fa; background-image: url("img/bg-partnership.svg"); } footer { margin-top: 30px; }

What didn’t you like in this task?

Thanks! We’ll fix everything at once!

The code has changed, click “Refresh” or turn autorun on.

You’ve gone to a different page

Click inside the mini-browser to shift the focus onto this window.

100%
Goalscompleted
0
    1. For the em and i tags cancel the italics by assigning the value normal to the font-style property.
    2. Specify italics text for the .italic by assigning value to the font-style.

    Cookies ∙ Privacy ∙ License Agreement ∙ About ∙ Contacts ∙ © HTML Academy OÜ, 2019−2025

    VISAMastercard

    Log in

    or

    Forgot your password?

    Sign up

    Sign up

    or
    Log in

    Restore access

    Have you forgotten your password or lost access to your profile? Enter your email connected to your profile and we will send you a link to restore access.

    Forgot to connect your email to the profile? Email us and we’ll help.