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Re: how to convey that at list one field should bepopulated

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From: Keith Parks
Date: Dec 14, 2006 12:15PM

On Dec 11, 2006, at 8:51 PM, Shrirang Sahasrabudhe wrote:

> Thanks
> I am putting “Please specify at least one of the following:” as a
> h3, would it be appropriate?

In theory, for proper nesting of <h> tags, there would have to be an
h2 preceding it in your content flow for that bit of text to be
tagged as an h3. As I understand it, <h> levels should not be
arbitrarily assigned based on the relative "importance" of the
information, but are supposed to follow a strict hierarchy.

> I’ll be putting the heading off-screen

From your original post it seemed like *all* users would need to be
aware of that requirement. So shouldn't it be on screen somewhere?

-Keith

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