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Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b-element Comment: I notice that under the definition for the-i-element it says "Authors are encouraged to use the class attribute on the i element to identify why the element is being used", but there's no similar text for b. Given the Note on both, it seems you'd want to mention classes to enable CSS styling on the-b-element too Posted from: 221.191.254.72 by w3.org@boblet.net
In addition, none of the b element examples and only one of two of the i element examples actually use classes. It would be good to add something like these to the b examples * class="component" (or part-name) * class="object" * class="opening-text" (or lede, lead, intro, opening-phrase etc) and to the second i example * class="dream" Finally with the lede sentence example you might want to change it to <b>Six abandoned kittens</b> have, as itd be more appropriate to use <strong> (it looks like a summary of the article which would be more important), <p class="lede">, h2 + p {}, or h2 p:first-of-type {} to embolden the entire paragraph.
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