It is used to be a point of emphasis in web page by showing text in italicized text. It should be used to add emphasis and not for italicizing text for which <i> tag or CSS can be used. Its example
| HTML code <p>This <em> must </em> be filled.</p> <p>This is paragraph 2</p> | Browser output  |
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