Replacing All Tags Of One Kind With Another

[Rand Brittain]

This is useful advice; I'll give it a try once the ePub is completed and backed up.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

It was depreciated and then un-depreciated. They (Web Standards) then decided <b> is literally bold and <strong> is semantic, but always rendered bold unless the CSS does something different. They can be the same via CSS.

It's alleged than some screen readers differentiate between <b> and <strong>, though mine don't!

It's likely you can just search and replace if you feel you need to change it.

Note that while ebooks use HTML and CSS largely the same way as web pages, they are not web pages.

Also a Chapter Heading might not be using <strong> or <b> but an H class. Probably shouldn't be using <b> or <strong> directly. Arguably only a word or phrase inline in a styled (via CSS) paragraph would directly have <b>, <i> and the semantic alternatives.

Very well said!

[Rand Brittain]

These extensions did exactly what I wanted; thank you for your advice!

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

Is there a way to replace every instance of that particular <span> tag in an ePub, including the closing tag with a <strong> tag, other than doing it all manually?

As a few other users have pointed out, DiapDealer's two plugins are perfect for this.

For Calibre, you could use his Diap's Editing Toolbag.

For Sigil, you could use his TagMechanic.

I wrote some instructions with pictures just a few months ago in:

"How do I change italic <i> shortcut to use <em> instead?"

In order to go from <span class="bold"> -> <b>, you have to use slightly different settings:

Action Type: Modify
Tag name: span
Having the attribute: class
Whose value is (no quotes): bold
Change tag to: b

Originally Posted by hobnail

So now I'm confused about the difference between the strong and em tags.

For all the technical details on <i> vs. <em>, <b> vs. <strong>, and <span class="italics"> vs. <i>/<em>, see the famous thread from earlier this year:

"<i>, <em> or <span> for italics?"

<em> = emphasis, like:

"Don't you know <em>you're</em> supposed to walk the dog today?"

<strong> is meant for "important information", like:

<strong>WARNING!</strong> Minefield ahead!

Also see MDN's article on it, where they also explain the differences between:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...Element/strong