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Re: Heading levels

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 25, 2006 4:40PM

Helen A wrote:

> its because you have gone from <h3> back to <h2>. You can't back-track
> up a level, so working down a page you can't have <h3> on line N then on
> line Q put <h2>, it would have to be <h4> as 4 follows 3 numerically
> speaking.

Just to clarify, that's wrong. The issue here is whether or not it's ok
to skip a level going down (i.e. having an H1 followed by an H3, without
any H2 in between). Going back up one level is perfectly valid and logical.

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