HTML 5: The Markup Language

boffset text typically styled in bold # T

The b element represents a span of text offset from its surrounding content without conveying any extra importance; for example, keywords in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is bold text.

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A b element must have both a start tag and an end tag.

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Typical default display properties #

b {
font-weight: bolder; }