{"id":1042,"date":"2010-07-12T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/Internationaltmp\/2010\/07\/12\/new_article_using_b_and_i_elements\/"},"modified":"2011-10-03T07:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T07:39:38","slug":"new_article_using_b_and_i_elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2010\/07\/12\/new_article_using_b_and_i_elements\/","title":{"rendered":"New article: Using b and i elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answers the question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/questions\/qa-b-and-i-tags\">Should I use b and i elements?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The HTML5 specification redefines b and i elements to have some semantic function, rather than purely presentational. However, the simple fact that the tag names are &#8216;b&#8217; for bold and &#8216;i&#8217; for italic means that people are likely to continue using them as a quick presentational fix.<\/p>\n<p>This article explains why that can be problematic for localization (and indeed for restyling of pages in a single language), and echoes the advice in the specification intended to address those issues.<\/p>\n<p>By Richard Ishida, W3C. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answers the question: Should I use b and i elements? The HTML5 specification redefines b and i elements to have some semantic function, rather than purely presentational. However, the simple fact that the tag names are &#8216;b&#8217; for bold and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2010\/07\/12\/new_article_using_b_and_i_elements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,10,5],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-highlight","category-new-resource","category-w3cwebdesign","tag-qa-b-and-i-tags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}