On 12/11/05, Donna Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> okay, hi everyone:  a short question, i intend it to be, at least.
>
> is "i" (italic) deprecated in xhtml?  and even better, could someone
> point me to a w3c page that talks about what is deprecated in xhtml?
>
> and, second part of that, why does the validator validate it if it is
> deprecated.
>
> many thanks

"i" is not deprecated, and this is how it works:

use "i" when you want just the appearance of italics, without any
semantics (why would anyone do that? I don't know)

use "em" or "cite" when you want, respectively, emphasis or citation.

and for everything else, there's CSS ;)

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