On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Edward O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: >> The HTML 5 spec doesn't give clear guidance on the choice between >> strong and em tags. > > The spec distinguishes between importance (<strong>) and emphasis > (<em>) like so: > > "The placement of emphasis changes the meaning of the sentence. The > element thus forms an integral part of the content." > > and > > "Changing the importance of a piece of text with the strong element > does not change the meaning of the sentence." > > So, basically, putting <em> around different words in a sentence > changes the sentence's meaning, whereas moving <strong> around in the > same way doesn't alter the meaning of the text. > > Do you think that's sufficiently clear?
I suppose it is reasonably clear with these two sentences. I should have attributed more attention to them. Thank you, Peter
