What's the difference between strong text and bold text?

Answer 1

strong means important. If nothing else is declarated strong is understood like bold, but you can (by css, not by html itself) declarate strong in other wise than bold i. e. b. b is always and only bold. In summary strong is more general than b.

Answer 2

For example <strong>, <b> or <i>, <em>. They have the same effect on normal web browser rendering engines, but there is a fundamental difference between them. Think of three different situations:
- web browsers
- blind people
- mobile phones

"Bold" is a style - when you say "bold a word", people basically know that it means to add more, let's say "ink", around the letters until they stand out more amongst the rest of the letters.

That, unfortunately, means nothing to a blind person. On mobile phones and other PDAs, text is already bold because screen resolution is very small. You can't bold a bold without screwing something up.

<b> is a style - we know what "bold" is supposed to look like.

<strong> is an indication of how something should be understood. Text in <strong> is important. "Strong" could (and often does) mean "bold" in a browser, but it could also mean a lower tone for a speaking program like Jaws (for blind people) or be represented by an underline (since you can't bold a bold) on a Palm Pilot.

Answer 3

@Esdras Antero thanks for the explanation

Answer 4

strong is strong and bold is bolf

Answer 5

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