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Is the <i> Tag is Deprecated in HTML 5?

We use <em> Tag instead.

16th Oct 2017, 12:58 PM
Jarome Carlo L. Aviles
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Yes, because you can style text with CSS. Example: p { font-style: italic; }
16th Oct 2017, 1:04 PM
David
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Nope it's not deprecated but instead its usage was changed since the implementation of HTML5. Extra read: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-i-element
16th Oct 2017, 1:35 PM
Zephyr Koo
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Thank you for your answer. Now it makes clearer for me. :)
16th Oct 2017, 1:06 PM
Jarome Carlo L. Aviles
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No Problem.
16th Oct 2017, 1:08 PM
David
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