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font-style property

Sets or retrieves the font style of the object as italic, normal, or oblique.

font-style: normal | italic | oblique

Windows Internet Explorer is shipped with a default font-style, but you can change this default in Internet Options.

The following example shows how to use hn as a selector to set the font style to italic in h3 headings.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/font-style.htm


<style type="text/css">
    h3 { font-style:italic }
</style>

The following example shows how to use inline scripting to set the font style to italic when an onmousedown event occurs.

Code example: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/fontStyle.htm


<div onmousedown="this.style.fontStyle='italic'">

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