>From the official documentation:

*Note:* Feel free to use <b> and <i> in HTML5, but their usage has changed
a bit. <b> is meant to highlight words or phrases without conveying
additional importance while <i> is mostly for voice, technical terms, etc.

Basically, the semantics of <i> changed, so it's probably just "syntactic
sugar", a semantic reassignment of the tag.

Since <i> is a nice mnemonic for "icon", and shorter than a span with a
class - I personally like the approach.

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Catalin Pintea, *Designer*
catalinpintea.com



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:46 PM, K20 <[email protected]> wrote:

> In this part of boostrap documentation :
> http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#icons
> it is explained how to use glyphicons.
>
> Why <i> tag is used to display these tags ? Why not using <span> or
> another tag ?
>

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