Need To Bold One Line Of Text Using CSS And The Div Id Tag

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I am working on my resume and am trying to bold the name of my degree....'aint workin! Any help would be appreciated.... Here is my html:

<section> <h4>Education</h4> <div id="edccDegree">Associate of Technical Arts</div> Web Application Development</div> Edmonds Community College, August 2013<br> GPA: 3.3 out of 4.0<br>

Here is my CSS:

#edccDegree { font-weight:bold; }

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Share Improve this question Follow edited Aug 20, 2013 at 15:16 luiges90 4,57822 gold badges3030 silver badges4343 bronze badges asked Aug 20, 2013 at 15:14 user2700402user2700402 111 silver badge22 bronze badges 6

• Please balance your HTML tags... Anyway I put your code into jsFiddle and it works well to me. Are you using IE7/8? – luiges90 Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:16
• What's with that extra closing div at Web Application Development</div>? – Cobra_Fast Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:18
• That extra </div> could cause some browsers to choke. – jbabey Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:18
• opening div tag is missing in the 4th line..Why you are using div and then bold style for that.Directly you can use <b></b> tags. – Sasidharan Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:20
• Thanks everyone. I took out the extra closing div tag but still having a problem. I don't want to use any formatting in the html, only in the css......still not working – user2700402 Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:43

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Sorted by: Reset to default Highest score (default) Trending (recent votes count more) Date modified (newest first) Date created (oldest first) 0 <section> <h4>Education</h4> <b>Associate of Technical Arts</b> <div>Web Application Development</div> Edmonds Community College, August 2013<br> GPA: 3.3 out of 4.0<br> </section> Share Improve this answer Follow answered Aug 20, 2013 at 15:22 SasidharanSasidharan 3,73033 gold badges2020 silver badges3737 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

Why are you wrapping that line in a div? Divs are really structural elements rather than text formatting elements. A strong tag should do what you require unless you have removed that styling already.

<section> <h4>Education</h4> <strong>Associate of Technical Arts</strong><br> Web Application Development<br> Edmonds Community College, August 2013<br> GPA: 3.3 out of 4.0<br> Share Improve this answer Follow answered Aug 20, 2013 at 15:22 levelnislevelnis 7,70566 gold badges4040 silver badges6161 bronze badges 2

• I thought I had to wrap it in a div tag to format it in CSS. I thought about using <strong> but am trying to avoid any formatting in the html. – user2700402 Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 15:40
• Adding a strong tag best conveys the meaning that you are giving to that text. You are wishing to convey emphasis to that text so semantically that is an ideal choice. Divs are better for layout than simply text formatting. – levelnis Commented Aug 20, 2013 at 17:13

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