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fontStyle style property

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Specifies or returns whether the style of the font is normal, italic or oblique.

Syntax:

object.fontStyle;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

CSS page for this property: font-style

Possible values:

The type of this property is string.

One of the following values:

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

italic

Font should be displayed in italic.

normal

Default. Font is normal.

oblique

Font should be displayed in oblique.

Default: normal.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the font-style property:

<head>
    <style>
        .normal {
            font-style: normal;
        }
        .italic {
            font-style: italic;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <span class="normal">font-style: normal</span><br />
    <span class="italic">font-style: italic</span>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the fontStyle property in JavaScript:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function ChangeFont (selectTag) {
            // Returns the index of the selected option
            var whichSelected = selectTag.selectedIndex;

            // Returns the selected options values
            var selectState = selectTag.options[whichSelected].text;

            var fontTest = document.getElementById ("fontTest");            
            fontTest.style.fontStyle = selectState;
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <span id="fontTest">
        Sample multiline text <br />change it!
    </span>

    <br />
    <select onchange="ChangeFont (this);" size="3">
        <option />italic
        <option selected="selected" />normal
        <option />oblique
    </select>
</body>