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Re: page should contain no more than two h1 elements

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From: Steve Green
Date: Jun 15, 2009 11:55AM

There's really no answer to this discussion.

Some people structure their headings in terms of importance, in which case
they will probably only have one h1. Others (like me) structure their
headings according to the type of content, in which case we often have more
than one h1. I believe the HTML specification allows both or is at best
ambiguous.

Nevertheless, 18 h1 headings does sound excessive, although there may be a
good reason for them.

As a separate issue I have a problem with tools that report non-compliances
as a result of heuristics such as "The text content of each h1 element
should match all or part of the title content". It may (or may not) be good
practice but many such heuristics including this one are not mandated in any
W3C specification.

Steve