Editing Template:Strong/doc (section)

== Purpose ==
The {{Strong|Strong template}} makes it faster and easier to apply the {{tag|strong}} {{strong|importance, seriousness, or urgency}} [[HTML element]] to text, and more importantly to indicate to human editors and [[Wikipedia:Bots|Wikipedia bot]]s they should not use <code><nowiki>'''...'''</nowiki></code> or {{tag|b}} typographic boldfacing to replace the intentional and [[Semantic Web|semantically meaningful]] {{tag|strong|open}}.  The {{tag|strong}} element is usually rendered visually in a bold (heavy) typeface by default on graphical browsers, but can be parsed and acted upon in customizable ways with [[Style sheet (web development)|style sheets]], [[Application software|apps]], and text-to-speech [[screen reader]]s. It is [[semantic markup]], i.e. markup that conveys meaning or context, not just visual appearance.

Simple boldfacing (<code><nowiki>'''...'''</nowiki></code> or {{tag|b}}) is purely typographic and is semantically meaningless. Boldface ({{tag|b}}) is most often used for headings, but has a few other uses (such as for book or film titles and the like, which are usually italicized, when they appear in an already-italicized passage).  The average reader, and average editor, do not and need not care about this distinction most of the time, but it can be important and editors who understand it can use this template as a baseline insurance against accidental or uninformed replacement by bots and human editors, as well as to add [[web accessibility]].