Template:Em

Documentation
This is a convenient template wrapper for the  HTML element, the proper markup for  text, as distinct from purely typographic use of italics (  or, in wikimarkup,  ). The latter is for titles of published works, for foreign-language terms, and other purposes that are not semantic emphasis.

This template should be used, as trying to emphasize everything reduces the actual effect of emphasizing anything.

See also the template, , used even more sparingly.

Usage:

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If the content contains a  character, the parameter must be named (as  ):

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