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10 years ago

What is the difference between strong and b tag?

This post was edited by puneetchauhan on Wed, Oct 30, 13 at 7:44

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Arpita Sen

8 years ago

They have the same effect on normal web browser rendering engines, but there is afundamental difference between them. In HTML5 <strong> and <b> both exist and have a different meaning. The <b> tag is for "offset text conventionally styled in bold". If you read deeper into the details you'll see it adds, "without conveying any extra emphasis or importance". <strong> is different. It "represents a span of text with strong importance." There is semantic meaning of importance here. In fact, a <strong> tag within another <strong> tag has even more importance. There is nested importance.

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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
They look the same to me...
Tag
Result
b
Sample text
strong
Sample text
i
Sample text
em
Sample text

I won't pretend to have the language skills to understand this explanation but anyway:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271743/whats-the-difference-between-b-and-strong-i-and-em

And to add to my confusion, HTML5 apparently redefines the b and i tags to have the semantic meaning it once lacked:

http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags

Personally, I'm too lazy and uneducated to understand the difference, except perhaps as it pertains to using a screen-reader, so I use the method with the least keystrokes. I don't design web pages professionally though. If I did, I'd probably start using strong and em and pretend I knew why. :)
Tinaustin
10 years ago
Strong tag to make the text bold it also looks bold in most browsers.It is Logical Tag.

Bold tag to make the text bold it does look bold.
The b tags are primarily for visual effect on a page when designing layout.
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Davidrobert1
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If You want HTML Tags in Briefly See this link:w3schools.com. here you can get lot of HTML Tags with Example.
doodlebee
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"b" is deprecated. So is "I" (use em, instead). That's the difference.
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Southerncharms
7 years ago
The bold tag still works but has been replaced in HTML4 with the strong tag.
arsen_adamyan0017
6 years ago
Hypertext Markup Language is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web.

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