Is there any difference between <b> tag and <strong> tag in html [duplicate]

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What's the difference between <b> and <strong>, <i> and <em>?

The purpose of "bold " i.e bold to make the text bold. Then what is the purpose strong tag in html? I have used strong tag to make the text bold.

So what is difference between both the tag.

What are places where i have to use "strong" tag and where i have to use bold tag.

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it's really all about semantic HTML.

<b/>

tag doesn't tell you anything about the content, and is thus not a semantic representation of your content.

<strong> 

on the other hand gives you an indication about the semantic meaning of the item you're putting the tag around. Same goes with

<i> and <em>. 

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<b> is for presentation, and <strong> is for context. Visual browsers usually render strong text as bold, but things such as screen readers can render it as a louder voice.

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The <strong> tag is a phrase tag.

whereas

The <b> tag is a font-style tags.

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Amplifying Anatoly G's answer: <b> and <i> and their ilk were added into HTML by people who didn't understand the whole point of the language and the fact that its tags were for the semantics of your text, not for presentation. Of course to be fair to these people, this is because the people who made HTML at first really had no clue about the uses HTML was going to be put to. As a result a whole bunch of ill-considered tags (<blink> anyone? <frame>?) were added that muddied up the HTML scene badly and that we still have to live with to this day.

These days you should eschew the use of the presentation tags in favour of proper use of CSS so that your tags reflect your semantic intent while your CSS controls the presentation of same.