<i> creates italic text

</i> closes italic text

To create italics, just sandwich the words you want to appear in italics between the tags <i> and </i>. For example, you could say:

<b>Help!</b> There's a <b>Floyd</b> in my house, and I <i>really</i> don't like it!

Which will look like this:

Help! There's a Floyd in my house, and I really don't like it!