ya, I think I know a little bit of web.. in a semantical way to do it, "i" for me was icon/image or whatever, I really didnt want to put the tile italic..
w3c agree with me:
http://www.w3.org/International/ques...a-b-and-i-tags
anyway, there is no problem to transform inline stuff in block or anything.. to make something really webstandart you have to see the tags as any normal Xml object, and by css you give them atributes.. I usually reset all atributes by css when I make something.. Actually any advance programm recommend you reset it
http://www.google.com.br/search?q=css+reset but if "i" doesnt look right, just change it to any other tag
