em 表示強調,strong 表示更強烈的強調。言簡意賅,表明了 em 和 strong 的命名來歷。并且在瀏覽器中,em 默認用斜體表示,strong 用粗體表示。這是第一個層次上的區別。 em is for local emphasis. You see? Local emphasis. If you would emphasize a word in speech, use em. strong is for global highlighting. When somebody looks at your document, at a glance, certain words and phrases should jump out. These are the words and phrases that make up the gist of the content ― the highlights. em 用來局部強調,strong 則是全局強調。從視覺上考慮,em 的強調是有順序的,閱讀到某處時,才會注意到。strong 的強調則是一種隨意無順序的,看見某文時,立刻就凸顯出來的關鍵詞句。斜體和粗體剛好滿足了這兩種視覺效果,因此也就成了 em 和 strong 的默認樣式。 感覺上面已經解釋得很清楚了?我們再來看看第三個層次上的區別。HTML5 草案 中做了詳盡解釋: The em element represents stress emphasis of its contents. The placement of emphasis changes the meaning of the sentence. The strong element represents strong importance for its contents. Changing the importance of a piece of text with the strong element does not change the meaning of the sentence. em 表示內容的著重點(stress emphasis),strong 表示內容的重要性(strong importance),strong 不會改變所在句子的語意,em 則會改變所在句子的語義。并且舉了一個非常好的例子: