Name

b — <b> . . . </b>

Enclosed text is rendered in bold. This is one of the few presentational elements preserved in the XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1 DTDs. The strong element is preferable to b because it is semantic (not presentional) and renders in bold in visual browsers by default.

Attributes

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Example

We really need to leave <b>right now</b> !

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