I was told they should not be in there, but how do I remove them?

<https://jsfiddle.net/jqzs6d3o/>

That is all I am doing in the code.

Removing the `<b> </b>` tags from the html it.

How would that be done?

Is this something hard to do?

Removing `<b></b>` removes the blue circle. I want to keep the circle and remove `<b></b>`

```
<button class="exitnew" type="button" aria-label="Close"><b></b></button>

```

```css
.exitnew {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
  position: relative;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: auto;
  padding: 0;
  width: 48px;
  height: 48px;
  cursor: pointer;
  background: transparent;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 50%;
  clip-path: circle(50%);
  transition: all 1s ease;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.exitnew::before,
.exitnew::after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  height: 5px;
  width: 38px;
  top: 22px;
  left: 5px;
  right: 5px;
  background: red;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  transition: all 1s ease;
}

.exitnew::after {
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
}

.exitnew:hover {
  background: transparent;
}

.exitnew:hover::before,
.exitnew:hover::after {
  background: green;
}

.exitnew b {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  border: 5px solid blue;
  border-radius: 50%;
}
```

```html
<button class="exitnew" type="button" aria-label="Close"><b></b></button>
```