Italic

To italicize text, add one asterisk or underscore before and after a word or phrase. To italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add one asterisk without spaces around the letters.

Markdown语法	HTML	预览效果
`Italicized text is the cat's meow.`	`Italicized text is the <em>cat's meow</em>.`	Italicized text is the cat’s meow.
`Italicized text is the _cat's meow_.`	`Italicized text is the <em>cat's meow</em>.`	Italicized text is the cat’s meow.
`Acatmeow`	`A<em>cat</em>meow`	Acatmeow

Italic Best Practices

Markdown applications don't agree on how to handle underscores in the middle of a word. For compatibility, use asterisks to italicize the middle of a word for emphasis.

✅ Do this	❌ Don't do this
`Acatmeow`	`A_cat_meow`