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Set the Font Boldness
By Stephen Bucaro
Use the font-weight property to set boldness of text. Font weight can be
set to normal, bold, or as a "thickness" value between 100 and 900.
<p style="font-weight:normal;">Font weight set to normal</p>
Font weight set to normal
<p style="font-weight:bold;">Font weight set to bold</p>
Font weight set to bold
<p style="font-weight:600;">Font weight set to 600</p>
Font weight set to 600
To set a bold font for some text within a paragraph, place the text to be set
to bold within a <span> element, and set the font-weight property of
the span to the desired value. An example is shown below.
<p>The second amendment
<span style="font-weight:bold;">
does not</span>
give people the right to own a gun.</p>
The second amendment does not give people
the right to own a gun.
Note, some webpage designers think everything should be done with CSS styles and
the use of html tags is obsolete. I disagree because it's so easy to just place the
the text to be set to bold within <b></b> tags. An example is shown below.
<p>The second amendment <b>does not</b> give people the right to own a gun.</p>
The second amendment does not give people the right to own a gun.
The developers of html version 4 thought just using <b> for "bold" was too
difficult to understand, so they added the <strong> tag, which does exactly the
same thing. An example is shown below.
<p>The second amendment <strong>does not</strong> give people the right to own a gun.</p>
The second amendment does not give people the right to own a gun.
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