Something that annoys me is to be slinking through someones code and see <small><strong><em> .<br />
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I'm not sure why I'm so hung up on it. Can anyone tell me why this is surely becoming the standard and why we're migrating away from <b> and <i>?? (Ugh' and the small tag, oh' how I hate that why not just set it in the CSS and be done and when it's right beside a font tag I get a migraine there and then.)<br />
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I have been playing around building websites for a few years now and finally have almost gotten decent at it. 
<!--content-->http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-B <br />
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That might be of some help to you.<!--content--><strong> and <em> make much more semantic meaning than <b> or <i> would - If you just need bold or italicized text, you can do it easily with style sheets.<!--content-->The reason you see it more and more is because some programs to edit html put that code in for you so they put <strong> when <b> would be just fine.<!--content-->The current direction of the Web is the "semantic Web". I.e., the HTML document should "make sense" rather than "define how it should look". <B> and <I> are "presentational" tags; <STRONG> and <EM> are "semantic" tags that browers typically render as bold and italic respectively. Now that you've got a lot of 20th century Web experience under your belt, come on into the 21st century Web design. Read A List Apart (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com">http://www.alistapart.com</a><!-- m -->) and get Zeldman's book, 'designing with web standards'.<!--content-->Originally posted by Shto <br />
The reason you see it more and more is because some programs to edit html put that code in for you so they put <strong> when <b> would be just fine. Or, when web developers who know what they are doing create that pages, with semantic markup:<br />
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About <b> and <i>From <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#h-15.2">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present ... tml#h-15.2</a><!-- m --><br />
The following HTML elements specify font information. Although they are not all deprecated, their use is discouraged in favor of style sheets.<br />
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What <strong> and <em> actually mean, semantically:<br />
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/str...r of CSS for the above reasons.<!--content-->
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I'm not sure why I'm so hung up on it. Can anyone tell me why this is surely becoming the standard and why we're migrating away from <b> and <i>?? (Ugh' and the small tag, oh' how I hate that why not just set it in the CSS and be done and when it's right beside a font tag I get a migraine there and then.)<br />
<br />
I'm new here
I have been playing around building websites for a few years now and finally have almost gotten decent at it. <!--content-->http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#edef-B <br /><br />
That might be of some help to you.<!--content--><strong> and <em> make much more semantic meaning than <b> or <i> would - If you just need bold or italicized text, you can do it easily with style sheets.<!--content-->The reason you see it more and more is because some programs to edit html put that code in for you so they put <strong> when <b> would be just fine.<!--content-->The current direction of the Web is the "semantic Web". I.e., the HTML document should "make sense" rather than "define how it should look". <B> and <I> are "presentational" tags; <STRONG> and <EM> are "semantic" tags that browers typically render as bold and italic respectively. Now that you've got a lot of 20th century Web experience under your belt, come on into the 21st century Web design. Read A List Apart (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com">http://www.alistapart.com</a><!-- m -->) and get Zeldman's book, 'designing with web standards'.<!--content-->Originally posted by Shto <br />
The reason you see it more and more is because some programs to edit html put that code in for you so they put <strong> when <b> would be just fine. Or, when web developers who know what they are doing create that pages, with semantic markup:<br />
<br />
About <b> and <i>From <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/graphics.html#h-15.2">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present ... tml#h-15.2</a><!-- m --><br />
The following HTML elements specify font information. Although they are not all deprecated, their use is discouraged in favor of style sheets.<br />
<br />
What <strong> and <em> actually mean, semantically:<br />
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/str...r of CSS for the above reasons.<!--content-->