How do I bold text in Dreamweaver? What are the proper HTML tags to bold text?

Posted February 16, 2005

By complete accident in using shortcuts, the other day I figured out how to bold text in Dreamweaver using a shortcut in the Code View.Bascially all you have to do, is highlight the text, and press;

Ctrl + B

This will add the <strong> tags, which are the correct tags to use when bolding some text. The old tags, and the less semantic way to bold text using HTML are the <b></b> tags. When I say semantic, I mean using the markup to actual tell what kind of content they contain, mostly for the benefit of impaired users.

<b> tags don’t mean anything to an impaired user. Do they mean boy, ball, or bongo?. At least when you use <strong></strong> to surround text you know that the text inside inside is thicker in weight, or “stronger”.

I had always been aware that I could highlight text in “Design” view and click the “B” button in the Properties inspector, but I didn’t know I could use this shortcut in “Code” view.