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HTML Syntax
<strong
class = classname
id = value
style = css_style_rules
title = text
>
NOTE: Both start and end tags are required.
The <strong> element displays its enclosed text with a strong emphasis, normally in boldface type.
The element represents importance, seriousness, or urgency for its contents, and is approprtiate for the following.
- in a heading, caption, or paragraph to distinguish the part that really matters from other parts
- to mark up a warning or caution notice
- to denote contents that the user needs to see sooner than other parts of the document.
Most browsers render text within <strong> tags in boldface type by default.
Authors can use CSS, though, to convey additional semantic information as needed, for example, to change color or font-weight. This makes it easier to manage multiple use cases of the <strong> element.
This element is similar in function to the <B> element.
The <strong> element has no attribute of its own, but supports global attributes common to all HTML elements.
The following shows how the strong element may be used.
<p>This paragraph has <strong>some text with strong emphasis</strong>.</p>
which would render on a Web page as
This paragraph has some text with strong emphasis.
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