Html styles in description meta tag?

sehs33

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Hello everyone,

Apologies if this belongs to the black hat sub forum, but I honestly believe if this was possible/has any effect it would be White or Grey hat SEO (until proven otherwise):

What would happen if I added html tags into the content text in the description meta data? Something like <b></b> or even a <table> tag!

I know that Google shows this text sometimes in the SERP, but I searched if there is anyone who thought of this idea (or stupid idea) and I got no results at all, I also checked Google web master guidelines and found nothing that says you can't/shouldn't do that. Would that reflect on the SERP? Will it look like blank text? Would Google's algorithm clean the text/drop what's after it? Is there a penalty for doing such a thing?

For those who didn't get my question (English is not my first language), I am talking about doing something like this:

Code:
<meta name="description" content="BHW is the <b>best forum</b> for all of your <i>SEM needs</i>!" />

Anyone knows anything about/tried this?

Thanks in advance.
 
they will output it exactly like you write it

<b>best forum</b> the HTML won't be interpreted
 
This might be going black hatish then:
Would it be possible to wrap the block we want be rendered as html with some kind of code?
 
no, if you use google a lot, you will see that all the code except the text is dropped from that description, there is no workaround
 
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