Reid - 5:56 am on May 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

If you css your formatting do you run the risk of losing the effect of bolding. eg. <span class='custombold'>Boldtext</span> the class custombold is a bold with a couple of other attributes. Does anybody know if this is not counted as a bold as the styles are in an external css. I am guessing it wont count and thus would like to know if this would get counted <b class='custombold'>Boldtext</b> still uses the <b> but still worried the class attribute will result in Google not counting it as a bold.

<span class='custombold'>Boldtext</span>
This would count as normal text. or maybe a 'span' is counted as something 'emphasised' or 'set apart' from the other text. This could be a topic on it's own - how does google interpret <span>
From now on when someone starts a <b> vs <strong> thread they should include <span> (which is different than <div>)
You know we can only guess and assume about these things right?

<b class='custombold'>Boldtext</b>
This would count as <b>
Just as <h1 class='customhtag'> would still be <h1>