A question about Bootstrap HTML elements.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Mark Steenbakkers: I have a quick question about the Bootstrap HTML elements. Bootstrap uses the <p class=”lead”> element to make a paragraph stand out. Does the search engines recognize text between the <p class="lead">...</p> as text that is more important, like the <strong> element?
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  Dave Elliott: it just treats it as a standard p tag, i would have thought.  ;Classes don't mean anything really as you can name a class anything.
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  Mark Steenbakkers: Thanks +Dave Elliott , you can give any name to a class but in this case the .lead class is a standard class in Bootstrap.
  
  I found some more information for Bootstrap Text/Typography on W3C.com. What is states is ".lead Makes a paragraph stand out", but does this mean the search engines give more weight to the lead paragraph?
  
  http://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap/bootstrap_typography.asp
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  Dave Elliott: No. It is purely an astetic thing. Oh and I'm almost entirely certain that it was decided a
  Few years ago that strong, and emphasis tags did nothing for on page rankings
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  Mark Steenbakkers: Hi +Dave Elliott I'm pretty sure the html tags are more then just an astetic thing. I only could find there is no difference between the bold and strong for SEO, but I don't know if this also is true for the Bootstrap lead class.
  
  Matt Cutts explanation
  Is there a difference between the "strong" and "b" tags in terms of SEO?
  
  Is there a difference between the "strong" and "b" tags in terms of SEO?