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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 12:25PM

This discussion illustrates that there is not a consensus regarding whether
having a single h1 is 'best practice'. I certainly don't agree that it is.

For instance where do you put content such as the page header and footer,
navigation and other common elements? They clearly don't belong under the h1
that contains your content. Unfortunately the current (X)HTML specifications
do not provide a means to mark up those types of content appropriately.

Also there is nothing anywhere that says a page has to be about a single
topic. Often it will be but not always.

Steve