Strong element
The HTML strong element marks content as having strong importance, seriousness, or urgency.
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The strong element is an HTML element that marks content as having strong importance or urgency.
- How it is used
- Marks important or urgent words, phrases, and sentences so readers notice them within regular page text.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the element, shows its syntax and browser appearance, and contrasts it with keyword, emphasis, and alternative-text markup.
- Examples
- Demonstrates an urgent button warning inside a paragraph and shows the resulting bold browser display.
- What you can do after
- Apply it by wrapping important HTML text in opening and closing strong tags.
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The HTML strong element marks text as having strong importance or urgency relative to surrounding text.
- How it is used
- Uses <strong> to communicate semantic importance, while separating meaning from visual boldness.
- How deep it goes
- Distinguishes <strong>, <b>, and CSS font-weight, but stops short of implementation detail beyond short markup guidance.
- Examples
- Illustrates <strong> through a figure showing bold text whose contents are extremely important.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via HTML and CSS by selecting semantic importance or presentational boldness deliberately.
Related concepts
- b elementcontrasts with · The HTML b element marks text as stylistically distinct without conveying strong importance or emphasis.
- em elementcontrasts with · The em element is an HTML element that semantically marks text for emphasis or stress, conventionally rendered in italics by browsers.
- 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.
- absolute positioninguses · Absolute positioning is a CSS layout technique that removes an element from normal flow and positions it relative to a containing block, typically established by a positioned ancestor.
- 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.
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