Before using CoffeeCup 2010 Build 365 on a large scale, I made copies of some of my existing web page files to experiment on.

The quixotic (arbitrary?) way CC handles bolding is frankly driving me nuts.

In Code Editor mode, highlighting a phrase and using the B bold button from the Main Toolbar or the Format Menu's B results in the expected <b></b> around the phrase.

In Visual Editor mode, using exactly the same commands results in a visual bolding. But when I go back to Code Editor mode, the actual code inserted by CC is <strong></strong> which is completely unacceptable to me.

Ditto for my desired <i> as in Code Editor and not <em> as the Visual Editor inserts.

I have several websites built entirely in XHTML using only a text editor so I am pretty finicky about my code and I don't want a mixture of tags for what may not be the same result, depending on the end reader's browser.

Not having control of the code I want here would be a proverbial deal breaker for me.

Is there any way to make CC use only the <b> and <i> tags?

Thanks for any help or suggestions. Steve

Right now the code editor and visual editor are more or less two separate programs each using different code sets. If you want to be fully XHTML compliant, you should probably stick to the code editor exclusively and use the Split Screen Preview instead (F12).

Another way to solve this problem is create it with html editor then put it on code and use the find and replace option and replace all the <strong></strong> with <b></b>. It is extra work but it is fastest way to solve this problem.