<b> and <strong>

[Justin]

Sorry if this is a kiddy question in the world of HTML...

but what is the difference between <b> tag and the <strong> tag?

 

[Luke]

http://www.think-ink.net/html/bold.htm

 

[Kashike]

<strong> is valid xHTML, where as <b> is not.

 

[Mr.Paine]

Theta beat me to it

 

[Benjay]

They'll both work for HTML though.

 

[Nathan]

It depends on whether you want your code to be "valid" or not, although it is good to do it.

 

[death180]

It's best to get in a habit of using <strong> because that is the "valid" way of doing it. Really it's the xhtml bold, vs <b> is html bold.

 

[David]

I like to stick with <strong> for official websites and coded designs.

 

[Carson]

And it's actually encouraged that you use CSS for most design situations.

 

[gbl08ma]

The replies of this thread viewtopic.php?f=80&t=61840 almost fit into this question, simply replace <br> by <b> and <br /> by <strong> and there you have the answer 😛

Now seriously, <strong> is "more correct", despite having more characters thus being more difficult/slow to write.

 

[David]

And it's actually encouraged that you use CSS for most design situations.

Yes and not. The use of CSS is primarily for styling, yet the accentuation of a work, ie. the use of <strong> is not necessarily styling, so it's only ever encouraged if the aim is the style.