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Sorry, I should have been more clear. No matter what numeric value I use, the appearance of the font-weight does not change.

Thanks, let me try it (honestly still trying to understand difference between HTML and CSS, how they interact, and what “code” truly refers to these days).

Ok, so this is what I tried with no success (two formats with only difference being a space in between colon and the weight number):

<span style=”font-weight: 300;”>

<span style=”font-weight:300;”>

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Good points regarding the bolding in the posts, an obviously stupid thing on my end . . . except why didn’t that unclosed bold enbolden the rest of the post, instead of just one word or a few words?

SongDogTech, I now understand what you are saying, and apologize for not getting it earlier; thanks for your patience in explaining. Your thought makes sense, although it seems odd that this “bleed over” to the rest of the page content never occurred until a few days ago. I shall attempt to correct the problem you’ve identified forthwith and report back.

Thanks again.

Hey, Song, sorry if you are frustrated with me, I know you’re trying to help. What I was trying to say is that the sidebar beginning “General Legal Advice” IS supposed to have the unclosed <strong> tag – that sidebar is supposed to be all bold and always has been.

The sidebar beginning with “Wills, Trusts” is an example of an area which
converted to all bold, despite me not adding any such tags and no <bold> code being present/seen via the WordPress page editor.

Thanks, everyone.

SongDogTech, I do PROMISE you I am not cutting and pasting at all, and I did not, in any way, add any text commands in this post or the previous ones. That previous post and this one were written with nothing but regular weight and font original text with the exception of one word in all caps in each. (Not trying to argue, just communicating that I really am not doing anything.)

MrMist, that makes sense to me (as a non-expert) and I will look into it. Not sure if that ’cause’ would be consistent with the issues that SongDogTech found when he ran the MarkUp Validator.

Will be interesting to see if this post contains any bolding once I hit “post” – right now, as I look at it, there is none, and I did not cut and paste, etc.

Thank you very much, SongDogTech, for your effort and suggestions – I shall explore this. At first glance of the Markup Validation, I see the errors – but none of these ‘errors’ show up/are viewable when I am looking at the code within WordPress. So I don’t see how I can ‘fix’ what I can’t see/what doesn’t exist in any viewable format within my pages.

I’m not an expert at this, by any means, but when I view the code via the WordPress page editor, all of the tags DO have closing tags. In fact, my sidebar has no bolding code at all (and never did) yet has also transformed into all bold. Similarly, I created a page last night, inserted zero text code commands (no bold, no italics, no underline, etc.) and it was all bold.

Then, there is the issue of my links starting out normal/as written/as intended (encompassing 1 or 2 words, generally) and then somehow extending to encompass full paragraphs.

All this, plus my original WordPress Forum posting above having random bolding . . . what the heck? Could this be viral?