Title: Italic text
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Italic text

 *  Resolved [timwarner1969](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timwarner1969/)
 * (@timwarner1969)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/italic-text/)
 * Hi,
 * I am trying to make some words in a cell italic by using ‘<i>blah blah</i>’, 
   but the cell isn’t acknowledging it – am I doing something wrong?
 * I am able to use **blah blah** without a problem, so just assumed I could also
   use other html in the same way.
 * Please advise.
 * Thanks in advance!
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/italic-text/#post-5960637)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * This HTML code is totally correct (although `<em>italics</em>` is recommended
   in modern HTML),
    The problem simply is that your theme is resetting the styling
   for that HTML tag to upright characters, using CSS. To change that in tables,
   please add this “Custom CSS”:
 *     ```
       .tablepress i {
       	font-style: italic;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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