Freecodecamp: Outdated Italicize method

Created on 12 Mar 2016  路  3Comments  路  Source: freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

Challenge Change Text Inside an Element Using jQuery has an issue.
User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 Safari/537.36.
Please describe how to reproduce this issue, and include links to screenshots if possible.
In the descriptionof the challenge, it uses <i> to replace the italicized text with jquery instead of the <em> tag. In a previous challenge it mentions how <i>is outdated and usually used for icons in bootstrap now

ie.
$("h3").html("<i>jQuery Playground</i>");
should be:
$("h3").html("<em>jQuery Playground</em>");

My code:

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#target1").css("color", "red");

  });
</script>

<!-- Only change code above this line. -->

<div class="container-fluid">
  <h3 class="text-primary text-center">jQuery Playground</h3>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#left-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="left-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target1">#target1</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target2">#target2</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target3">#target3</button>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#right-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="right-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target4">#target4</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target5">#target5</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target6">#target6</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

discussing

Most helpful comment

We might as well change it to <em> just so we'll stop getting these dang issues.

All 3 comments

The earlier challenge you cited does say the i tags is used for icons now.

The i element was originally used to make other elements italic, but is now commonly used for icons. You add the Font Awesome classes to the i element to turn it into an icon, for example: ...

The W3C recommendationsays the i tags is:

The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.

I would either make it clear which tag to use or accept both tags. @FreeCodeCamp/issue-moderators thoughts?

We might as well change it to <em> just so we'll stop getting these dang issues.

:+1: for changing to <em>

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