HTML Tag

The tag in HTML is used to specify the bold text without any extra importance. The text is written within tag display in bold size. You can do that by using font-weight: bold; property in CSS. It is a container tag that contains an opening tag, content & closing tag. There is a similar tag, tag that is the parsed tag and used to show the importance of the text & has a similar effect on content.

As per the HTML5 specification, the tag should be used as a last option to resort when no other tag is more appropriate. The HTML5 specification states that for headings, it should be depicted by the <h1> to <h6> tags, for emphasized text, it must be depicted by the tag & similar wise, the important text by the tag, & for marked/highlighted text, it should be denoted with the tag.

Syntax:

<b> Contents... </b>

Accepted Attributes: This is a Global attribute, and can be used on any HTML element.

Example 1: This simple code example illustrates highlighting the text by making it as bold text in HTML.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h3>HTML b tag</h3>
    <p>
        A <b>Computer Science portal</b> for geeks.
        It contains well written, well thought and
        well explained <b>computer science and
            programming articles.</b>
    </p>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Example 2: In this example, we have used the tag & tag to illustrates the difference in the text appearance & their sizes.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h3>HTML b tag</h3>
 
    <!--paragraph Tag -->
    <p>This is normal paragraph Tag text</p>
 
    <!--bold Tag -->
    <b>This is bold Tag text</b>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Example 3: In this example, we have used the CSS font-weight property whose value is set to bold to make the text bold.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h3>HTML b tag</h3>
 
    <!--paragraph Tag -->
    <p>This is normal paragraph Tag text</p>
 
    <!--Using CSS in paragraph Tag for making text bold  -->
    <p style="font-weight: bold">This is bold text using CSS</p>
</body>
 
</html>