While <strong> and <em> are of course more semantically correct, there seem definite legitimate reasons to use the <b> and <i> tags for customer-written content.

Dec 20, 2009 · Both of them emphasize text. The &lt;em&gt; tag shows text as italics, whereas &lt;strong&gt; makes it bold. Is this the only difference?

Mar 4, 2009 · I heard you should define sizes and distances in your stylesheet with em instead of in pixels. So the question is why should I use em instead of px when defining styles in CSS? Is …

Jun 17, 2015 · cite & em is HTML 5 - standard, which insists in meaning. For a long time, old HTML (like <i>) is used for layout display. But the new standard requires that HTML should …

Jul 31, 2011 · The 'em' is a very useful unit in CSS, since it can adapt automatically to the font that the reader uses An EM is relative to the current element it is defined on. If you use relative …

Dec 17, 2010 · The 'em' unit is equal to the computed value of the 'font-size' property of the element on which it is used. The exception is when 'em' occurs in the value of the 'font-size' …

Apr 5, 2013 · The name of em is related to M. Originally the unit was derived from the width of the capital "M" in the given typeface. My interpretation of the first sentence would be that 'em' is …

Sep 25, 2008 · When setting the size of fonts in CSS, should I be using a percent value (%) or em? Can you explain the advantage?

While em is relative to the font-size of its direct or nearest parent, rem is only relative to the html (root) font-size. em gives the ability to control an area of a design. As in, scale the type in that …

Sorry if this is sounding fussy but I'm about to produce a whole lot of HTML 5 and I was hoping someone out there had come up with some clear rules for when to use the &lt;em&gt;, …