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Re: Multiple H1 tags in an HTML5 web page

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From: Steve Faulkner
Date: Mar 10, 2014 1:12PM

On 10 March 2014 19:04, Greg Gamble < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> So adding them per the HTML5 spec seems to me the way to go, if it makes
> sense to do so.


Hi Greg,

As i pointed out previously the HTML5 spec strongly encourages using
headings as per their outline depth. It does not encourage authors to use
H1s to represent anything other than a H1, if that is unclear it is a bug
and needs to be fixed. Feel free to file a bug
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?comment=&product=HTML%20WG&component=HTML5%20spec



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SteveF
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