b tag (XHTML 1.0)

bold text style

Topics

List of attributes
List of events

The b tag is used to achieve a bold text style. The tag is extremely easy to use:

<b>Bold text style</b>

The result looks like this:

Bold text style

The font-weight CSS property can be used as an alternative, on any tag with the style, class or id attribute. It offers several value variations, to control just exactly how bold the text should be.

Attributes

Attribute	Deprecated	Required	Description
class			space-separated list of classes
dir			direction for weak/neutral text
id			document-wide unique id
lang			language code
style			associated style info
title			advisory title

Events

Event	Description
onclick	a pointer button was clicked
ondblclick	a pointer button was double clicked
onkeydown	a key was pressed down
onkeypress	a key was pressed and released
onkeyup	a key was released
onmousedown	a pointer button was pressed down
onmousemove	a pointer was moved within
onmouseout	a pointer was moved away
onmouseover	a pointer was moved onto
onmouseup	a pointer button was released