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This template makes it faster and easier to apply the {{tag|strong}} {{strong|importance, seriousness, or urgency}} [[Wikipedia:HTML element]] to text, and more importantly to indicate to human and bot editors they should not use <code><nowiki>'''...'''</nowiki></code> or {{tag|b}} typographic boldfacing to replace the intentional and 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 sheets, apps and text-to-speech screen readers. It is said to be [[semantic markup]], i.e. markup that conveys meaning or context, not just visual appearance. Simple boldfacing is purely typographic and is semantically meaningless. It 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 careless replacement by bots and human editors.

* In the [[Wikipedia:WP:LEAD|lead section of an article]], the article's title and its synonyms {{em|should}} be marked with {{tnull|strong}}. Example: "The {{strong|soma}}, or {{strong|perikaryon}}, or {{strong|cyton}}, is the bulbous end of a neuron." {{As of|February 2012}}, this is not yet common, but users should not revert it (nor criticize anyone for not using it).