HTML Bold

HTML Bold: Main Tips

• Element <b> transforms regular text to bold in HTML without adding special importance to it.
• This element to make HTML bold content does not emphasize the text. In order to highlight important parts of the content, use <strong> element.

Theory is great, but we recommend digging deeper!

Learn HTML5 and CSS3 to Build a Website from Scratch

Stone River eLearning

3.4 (399)

Use of b and Alternatives

Element <b> is the HTML code for bold. It does not indicate importance of the selected text but provides a visual effect.

<p>Normal text vs <b>Text in bold</b></p>

There are two options to style information with bold in HTML:

• <strong> makes HTML bold text and mark it as important.
• font-weight CSS property sets the boldness of text.

The following code example shows how to set bold HTML text with the CSS property:

p { 
    font-weight: bold;
}

Browser support

Chrome

All

Edge

All

Firefox

1+

IE

All

Opera

All

Safari

All

Mobile browser support

Chrome

All

Firefox

4+

Opera

All

Safari

All