The font-style property determines the use of one of three font faces to be used in the rendering of a given element's text.
normal − Specifies a normal font face; that is, whatever is the default face for the font in use.
italic − Specifies an italic font face; that is, one which is slanted and in which the characters have been modified to improve legibility in their slanted state.
oblique − Specifies an oblique font face; that is, one which is slanted.
All the HTML elements
object.style.fontStyle = "italic";
Here is the example using this property −
<html> <head> </head> <body> <p style = "font-style:italic;"> This text will be rendered in italic style </p> </body> </html>
This will produce following result −