Editing Template:Strong/doc (section)

== Usage ==

:{{tlnull|strong|<var>important text</var>}}

or, if the important text contains an equals sign:
:{{tlnull|strong|'''1{{=}}'''<var>important text</var>}}

These both render as:
:{{strong|important text}}

This template puts intentional and explicit {{tag|strong}} (importance, seriousness, or urgency) HTML markup around the text provided as the first parameter. It is safest to always use the {{para|1}} syntax.

===Optional parameters===
Advanced HTML values can be passed through the template to the HTML code:
* {{para|role}} takes a WAI-ARIA role; adds <code>role="<var>rolename</var>"</code> to the HTML code
* {{para|class}} takes a class name (or multiple class names, separated by spaces); adds <code>class="<var>classname[s]</var>"</code> to the HTML code
* {{para|style}} takes inline CSS input; adds <code>style="<var>CSS directive[s]</var>"</code> to the HTML code
* {{para|id}} takes a valid, unique HTML id (must begin with an alphabetic letter); adds <code>id="<var>name</var>"</code> to the HTML code
* {{para|title}} takes text, which cannot be marked up in any way, and displays it as a pop-up "tooltip" when the cursor hovers over the {{tnull|strong}} span

===Use cases===
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This template is made to mark important words or phrases in a text, in a way that is (unlike simply boldfacing it) [[Semantic markup|semantically meaningful markup]]. With this technique, the important text strongly stands out from the rest in most if not all visual browsers and some text-to-speech screen readers (which usually ignore purely typographic boldfacing), and can also be parsed by user agents and other software as definitively indicating importance, not just some typographic boldface effect for appearance's sake. It should therefore only be used very sparingly in articles to highlight the most important words or phrases in the entire article (and, rarely in encyclopedic writing, to represent relative importance). Use of this template has a strong effect on {{Linktext|scannability}}, drawing the eye from elsewhere on the page to words marked up with the template.

Typical uses on Wikipedia:
* In the [[WP:LEAD|lead section of an article]], the article's title can be marked with {{tnull|strong}}. Example: "The {{strong|soma}} is the bulbous end of a neuron." {{As of|July 2022}}, there is no consensus either for or against this use.<ref>The style guidelines at [[MOS:BOLDTITLE]] and [[MOS:BOLDSYN]] recommend regular bolding. The use of this template has been briefly discussed [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section/Archive 20#Shouldn't we use semantic markup in the lead?|in 2018]] and [[Template talk:Strong#Use in lead sections of articles|in 2022]].</ref>
* After the lead, it {{em|can}} be used to highlight crucial terms of importance only slightly secondary to that of the article title and its synonyms. For example, the article on a viral infection might use {{tnull|strong}} to highlight the names of two identified strains of the disease in a "Varieties" section, as an aid to scannability.
* In unusual cases (most often direct quotations) it is used to represent contextually important text, if the passage were spoken rather than written (e.g., because it indicates shouting).
* Outside articles, it {{em|should}} be used (but {{as of|July 2021|lc=y}} isn't yet common) in polls, XfD processes, RfX votes, and similar comments and debates where users indicate that they approve of or disagree with a view or proposal. Example: "{{strong|Support}}, because of this and that reasons [...]" or "{{strong|Oppose}}, because of this and that reasons [...]".