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Re: strong vs. bold questions

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Mar 10, 2002 3:06PM

At 1:44 PM -0800 3/10/02, Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns wrote:
>On another list (webdesign-L <http://www.webdesign-l.com/>;) the
>question came up about using <strong> vs. <b> and why and when. I
>thought I'd ask this here, too.

Whenever there's a good semantic tag to use, such as <strong> or
<em>, use that. Other such HTML elements that could be useful
are things like <samp>, <abbr>, <h4> or <blockquote>.

If you're going to change something else, like the language, use
a <div> or <span> and then change the style in the CSS.

Otherwise, use presentational markup, either <b> or a <div>/<span>
with appropriate CSS.

Note that many screenreaders can and will understand <b> tags as
"make this bold i.e. emphasized".

--Kynn

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