Jay Sitter
Feb 23, 2023 Jay
Tags: HTML , webdev
From 1993 through roughly 2008 , the <b> and <i> tags in HTML meant “bold” and “italic,” respectively. Using those tags will still, in 2023, cause most (all?) browsers to render text with either a bold font weight or an italic font style, but the tags no longer “mean” that. It’s now more correct to consider it a coincidence that browsers represent <b> as B old and <i> as I talic; they may just as well be <y> and <r> .
Jay Sitter