3.1. Physical Character Styles
These elements specify the type of font or character style that should be applied to the enclosed text. They can be used almost anywhere, with a few exceptions such as the TITLE and labels of SUBMIT. Character styles can be nested to compose styles for bold-italic, an underlined fixed-width font, a large, green, bold, italic, strike-through font, and so forth.
| HTML Element: | <B> ... </B> |
| Attributes: | None |
The B element instructs the browser to use a bold version of the current font for the enclosed text. This rendering can be overridden by the use of style sheets (see Chapter 5 for details).
| HTML Element: | <I> ... </I> |
| Attributes: | None |
The I element instructs the browser to use italics for the enclosed text.
| HTML ... |
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