[thelist] replace <b> with <strong> (why dont use b tag)

Mark Howells mark at mountain.ch
Wed Jul 31 05:57:01 CDT 2002


> when i press b button on properties or ctrl+ b at dw mx, its writing
> <strong> tag but i dont want this.... cause i have used <b> tag on the other
> place while i was use ultradev 4...

The reason for this is that <b> and <i> are deprecated in XHTML. <b>,
stating bold text, means that the text will have no special emphasis in
non-visual browsers, where <strong> will. The W3C recommendation is that you
use <strong> or <em> to emphasise text.

Regards
Mark Howells
<http://www.mark.ac/evl/>




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