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Template to indicate that a span of text is italic.

Note that in MediaWiki text can be italicized by enclosing it in two straight apostrophes; ''this'' is displayed as this.

This template uses a styled span, in attempt to prevent misinterpretation of conventional MediaWiki notation for italics when working with certain templates and parameters that use specific formatting. This template should only be used when there are semantic reasons to separate text that is italicized for typographical conventions (titles of works, the names of ships, species taxa, foreign language terms, phrases that are whispered, etc.) versus text that is emphasized (warnings, text that is shouted, etc.) In the case of the latter, use {{em text}}, which will mark it as semantically different. This template only exists to distinguish between the two, which are often conflated but have different meanings.

Usage

• {{italic|text}}

See also

• {{normal}} remove italics in an otherwise italic span or block
• {{em text}}, for emphasized text, which is usually italicized in web browsers