font-style

Summary

The font-style CSS property allows italic or oblique faces to be selected within a font-family.

• Initial value normal
• Applies to all elements
• Inherited yes
• Media visual
• Computed value as specified
• Animatable no
• Canonical order the unique non-ambiguous order defined by the formal grammar

Syntax

Formal syntax: normal | italic | oblique

font-style: normal
font-style: italic
font-style: oblique

font-style: inherit

Values

Italic forms are generally cursive in nature while oblique faces are typically sloped versions of the regular face. Oblique faces can be simulated by artificially sloping the glyphs of the regular face.

normal

Selects a font that is classified as normal within a font-family

italic

Selects a font that is labeled italic, if that is not available, one labeled oblique

oblique

Selects a font that is labeled oblique

Example

This paragraph is italic.

This paragraph is oblique.

The above example shows the two font-style values. The CSS looks like this:

p.italic { font-style:italic } 
p.oblique { font-style: oblique }

And the HTML looks like this:

<p class="italic">This paragraph is italic.</p>
<p class="oblique">This paragraph is oblique.</p> 

Specific​ations

Browser compatibility

See also

• font, font-family, font-size, font-size-adjust, font-stretch, font-style, font-variant, font-weight, @font-face