Italics that look like bold?

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  theatargh · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 6:02 am

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  Hi there,

  On my blog, when I use the tag it looks, on my computer at least, like bold writing (and red!) and not italics.

  I find that to make it look like italics, I need to manually go through the HTML code and change every instance of to <i>.

  Does anyone know why this is happening? It’s incredibly frustrating.

  Thanks so much.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  theatargh · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 6:03 am

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  Oh dear, looks like it formatted my post for me!

  The post is about the < em > tag looking bold and red on my blog, as opposed to the < i > tag, which I need to change of the em’s to.

  Thanks.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 6:10 am

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  We can’t tell without a link to a post with the problem in question.

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  theatargh · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 6:27 am

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  Sorry, here you go: http://theatargh.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/review-of-woyzeck-malthouse-theatre/

  This appears to be happening with all my new posts, from at least a few months ago.

  Any suggestions appreciated – thanks.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:20 am

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  It’s a quirk of the particular theme (sorry, I had never experimented with that theme in the past). Here’s a similar complaint dating from 2007:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/italic-ltemgt-makes-text-bold-and-red-instead?replies=7#post-117605

  You could say it’s ok in theory, since “em” literally means emphasis, not necessarily italics, but it’s so unorthodox that personally I find it simply stupid.

  You might care to send a request to Support. (But a theme feature is not very likely to get changed if it’s not a manifest malfunction: what is annoying to you may be a feature others have liked and taken into consideration when choosing a theme for their blog.)