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HTML Tutorial: A Better Way To Add Simple Styling Elements in HTML
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By: Levi Blackman : One of the first things most people learn when they dive into the world of HTML is the simple styling element. These elements are:

To bold
 to italicize

So if you wanted to bold some text in html, you would use the following:

This text is bold!

You would replace the tags with the tag to italicize the text.

This works well and can add formatting to your text, giving your page a good visual element, but when creating truly powerful meaningful pages, you want your tags to be as powerful as they can be.

To get the same effect, as before with the simple styling tags, plus to add value to the bold or italicize text to entities such as search engines, there are other tags you can use. These tags are:

To bold and add a strong connotation to the text between the tags.
 To italicize and add emphasis to the text between the tags.

So you would use the following HTML:

This text is strong!

When you bold or emphasize text, it is usually something of importance in the document. By using these more advanced tags adds value to your document by pointing out the important phrases, and can give you much better results with search engines. The later of the tags are considered structural tags that specify the role of the text they are applied to, rather than the presentational tags reviewed at the beginning of this tutorial.

I hope this tutorial helps you further develop functional websites. If you have any comments or questions please post them on the forums and I will try to answer any questions to the best of my ability. Also post any suggestions for future tutorials, I am in need of idea’s, and I don’t really know what people want and need to learn about.

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