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Do you know the difference between <strong> and <b>, or <em> or <i>??

Regardless of what tag you use whether <strong> or <b>, and <em> or <i> there is a difference in the meaning of these tags even when they display the same. <b> and <i> defines bold and italic text, but <strong> and <em> means that the text is "important" to heed, and semantically speaking or in relation to SEO (search engine optimization) it's good for spiders or bots that crawl pages to distinguish importance - it won't do much for the human eye, apart from the obvious STANDING OUT.

28th Feb 2017, 8:24 PM
Mark Foxx
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Thanks for sharing anyway.
28th Feb 2017, 8:44 PM
Mark Foxx
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This is not intended as an answer but I would suggest you to read the topic on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271743/whats-the-difference-between-b-and-strong-i-and-em
28th Feb 2017, 8:37 PM
Patrik Sokol
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They are like font type...just like in Word processor
10th Mar 2017, 5:54 PM
Ravi Utsav
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