Alternative to the HTML Bold tag

Question

Okay, so I know that in HTML you can use the tag, but isn\'t there a \"weight=bold\" attribute that I can use in the

Answer 1

is a last resort

You can use , but only as a last resort. There are a variety of elements that work as good alternatives to , here they are in order of most usefulness:

More useful alternatives

• For important text:
• For stress emphasized text:
• For headings, not just page headings but paragraph headings and others of all kinds:

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The practical edge case for use of

The only case where I would advocate using is if

1. you have styled in a different way that you don't want displaying for the text that you have in mind,

2. you don't want italic emphasis or a heading, and

3. you are about to use an inline span or a span with a class just for bolding text. (For example: )

Then it's reasonable to use instead, because in that case it'll probably be cleaner/shorter and more semantic than an unsemantic span, and terceness/readability is a good reason for making that choice, since b has been redefined for use as an element denoting printed emphasis.