CSS - font-style


Description:

The font-style property determines the use of one of three font faces to be used in the rendering of a given element's text.

Possible Values:

  • normal: Specifies a normal font face; that is, whatever is the default face for the font in use.
  • italic: Specifies an italic font face; that is, one which is slanted and in which the characters have been modified to improve legibility in their slanted state.
  • oblique: Specifies an oblique font face; that is, one which is slanted.

Applies to:

All the HTML elements

DOM Syntax:

object.style.fontStyle="italic";

Example:

Here is the example using this property:

<p style="font-style:italic;">
This text will be rendered in italic style
</p>
     

This will produce following result:

This text will be rendered in italic style

 





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