Question: Let's say I have a `<span>` or `<a href...>` element and I want to make some of it's letters bold, for example (STACK is bolded):

```
<a href="www.stackoverflow.com">**STACK**OVERFLOW.COM></a>

```

And some of the email clients would ignore `<strong>`:

```
<p><strong>STACK</strong>OVERFLOW.COM</p>

```

redirecting the user to www.overflow.com

In other words, putting `<b>` or `<strong>` breaks the string into separate ones

How can I make it? A simple word with few letters**bold**

Answer: 
You should be able to use a span tag inside of the anchor tag without issue:

```html
<a href="www.stackoverflow.com"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:black;">STACK</span>OVERFLOW.COM</a>
```
Answering your question **yes**, you are forced to split the text in two to indicate which part you want on bold, because you need to add the desired bold text inside the `b` element.

Then understanding this, the proper way to do is is like this:

```
<a href="www.stackoverflow.com"><b>STACK</b>OVERFLOW.COM></a>

```