I'm not sure you're grokking what I'm saying. The answer to your question is "yes, of course". The class attribute has _nothing_ to do with CSS (or JS). The

I'm not sure you're grokking what I'm saying. The answer to your question is "yes, of course". The class attribute has _nothing_ to do with CSS (or JS). The CSS people didn't give us the class attribute (and the HTML people didn't put it in so that we could use CSS better). HTML had class attributes before CSS or JS ever existed.