B element
The HTML b element marks text as stylistically distinct without conveying strong importance or emphasis.
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The b element is an HTML element that draws attention to text without assigning it strong importance or emphasis.
- How it is used
- Marks keywords, names, and interface labels that need attention without assigning importance or emphasis.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the element, shows its bold browser rendering, and distinguishes its subtle semantics from strong and em.
- Examples
- Uses product names, company names, celebrity names, article openings, menu labels, and commands as keyword examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply it by wrapping keywords or interface labels in b tags and checking their bold browser rendering.
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The HTML b element draws attention to text without conveying that the text has greater importance.
- How it is used
- Draws attention to words through bold styling without marking them as more important.
- How deep it goes
- Distinguishes <b> from <strong> and CSS font-weight, but does not detail implementation beyond basic markup and styling.
- Examples
- Uses highlighted words, semantically important text, and Figure 8.12 to contrast attention with importance.
- What you can do after
- Apply it to draw attention, choosing <strong> when importance is intended and CSS when emphasis is purely visual.
Related concepts
- strong elementcontrasts with · The HTML strong element marks content as having strong importance, seriousness, or urgency.
- font-weightcontrasts with · Font weight is a typographic property specifying the relative thickness or visual heaviness of text glyphs, commonly through named or numeric values.
- HTML tagkind of · An HTML tag is angle-bracket-delimited markup that identifies, structures, or marks the boundary of an element in an HTML document.
- keywordaddresses · A keyword is a word or phrase with special significance for representing a topic, information need, content relevance, or syntactic role.
- HTML elementkind of · An HTML element is a component of an HTML document, defined by markup and represented in the document structure, with permitted attributes, content, and semantics.
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