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Re: <strong> vs <em>

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Feb 13, 2007 7:50AM

On 13/02/07, Paul R. Bohman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I may be stating the obvious, but in the cases where you need italics but
> not emphasis, that would be an appropriate instance to use styles instead of
> <em>, something like this:
>
> <span class="italic">This is italicized</span>
>
> With the style being something like this:
>
> .italic {
> font-style:italic;
> }

I suspect we're in holy war territory. I'd rather save the bytes and
use <i>, personally, as it's just as semantically vanilla as <span
class="italic">.

Tim