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Bug 16925 - This sentence is not easy to understand: "Style sheets can be used to format i elements, just like any other element can be restyled." It may be grammatically correct but it's not good style.
Summary: This sentence is not easy to understand: "Style sheets can be used to format ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-05-03 23:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-13 22:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-03 23:09:36 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-i-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-i-element

Comment:
This sentence is not easy to understand: "Style sheets can be used to format i
elements, just like any other element can be restyled." It may be
grammatically correct but it's not good style.

Posted from: 91.155.61.102
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:24:26 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18137 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-25 03:15:56 UTC 
What's wrong with it?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-13 22:18:19 UTC 
Not sure how to fix it, since I don't really understand what's bad style here.