Is there any difference between tag and tag in html

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The purpose of "bold " i.e bold to make the text bold. Then what is the purpose strong tag in html? I have used strong tag to make the text bold.

So what is difference between both the tag.

What are places where i have to use "strong" tag and where i have to use bold tag.

See [What's the difference between and , and ? ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271743/whats-the-difference-between-b-and-strong-i-and-em). — Matthew Flaschen, Oct 20 '10 at 06:04
The HTML element defines strong text, with added semantic "strong" importance. — Muhammad Awais, Jun 11 '16 at 14:21

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '10 at 05:55

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 is for presentation, and  is for context. Visual browsers usually render strong text as bold, but things such as screen readers can render it as a louder voice.

answered Oct 20 '10 at 05:55

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '10 at 05:56

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it's really all about semantic HTML.

<b/>

tag doesn't tell you anything about the content, and is thus not a semantic representation of your content.

<strong>

on the other hand gives you an indication about the semantic meaning of the item you're putting the tag around. Same goes with

<i> and <em>.

answered Oct 20 '10 at 05:56

Anatoly G

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`` and `` are not interchangeable; many of the things that are normally represented by italicized text have appropriate tags. When used for emphasis, `` is the tag to use, but one would use a `` tag for things like book and publication titles and `` with a language attribute (and, for styling convenience, a class identifying the span as foreign) for foreign words. In running text, the relationship between bold text and `` is much tighter; most other semantically-significant instances of bold text appear in headings and definition terms in glossaries. – Stan Rogers Oct 20 '10 at 06:47

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 20 '10 at 06:03

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The tag is a phrase tag.

whereas

The tag is a font-style tags.

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

Amplifying Anatoly G's answer:  and  and their ilk were added into HTML by people who didn't understand the whole point of the language and the fact that its tags were for the semantics of your text, not for presentation. Of course to be fair to these people, this is because the people who made HTML at first really had no clue about the uses HTML was going to be put to. As a result a whole bunch of ill-considered tags (<blink> anyone? <frame>?) were added that muddied up the HTML scene badly and that we still have to live with to this day.

These days you should eschew the use of the presentation tags in favour of proper use of CSS so that your tags reflect your semantic intent while your CSS controls the presentation of same.

Is there any difference between tag and tag in html

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