Semantics

Content that is important, serious, or urgent.

Additional info from the ARIA specification

See related emphasis.

The purpose of the strong role is to communicate strong importance, seriousness, or urgency. It is not for communicating changes in typographical presentation that are not important to the meaning of the content. Authors SHOULD use the strong role only if its absence would change the meaning of the content.

The strong role is not intended to convey stress or emphasis; for that purpose, the emphasis role is more appropriate.

Abstract Role

  • StructureRepresents a non-interactive part of a page that organizes content into coherent units.

Content Categories

  • Phrasing ContentAn element that typically appears inline and provides semantic meaning to text content.

Allowed Descendants

Phrasing Children Allowed

Usage

Allowed HTML elements

Implicit semantics

These elements have the role semantics by default, without needing to set the role attribute. Reach for elements with native semantics first when choosing how to implement a role in your content.

  • strong

Explicitly allowed

  • None

Elements that can have any role

  • abbr[role=strong]
  • address[role=strong]
  • b[role=strong]
  • blockquote[role=strong]
  • canvas[role=strong]
  • cite[role=strong]
  • code[role=strong]
  • custom-element[role=strong]
  • data[role=strong]
  • del[role=strong]
  • dfn[role=strong]
  • div[role=strong]
  • em[role=strong]
  • figure[role=strong]
  • i[role=strong]
  • ins[role=strong]
  • kbd[role=strong]
  • mark[role=strong]
  • output[role=strong]
  • p[role=strong]
  • pre[role=strong]
  • q[role=strong]
  • samp[role=strong]
  • small[role=strong]
  • span[role=strong]
  • table[role=strong]
  • tbody[role=strong]
  • tfoot[role=strong]
  • thead[role=strong]
  • time[role=strong]
  • u[role=strong]
  • var[role=strong]