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Re: heading as child of another heading - valid?

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From: Bourne, Sarah (MASSIT)
Date: Mar 30, 2018 12:51PM

H tags are block elements, which cannot contain other block elements. I don't know why it wasn't flagged by Nu. How AT would handle this would depend on how a particular browser handles the error. Ignore the H4, because it has no actual content itself? Ignore the H2, because it's not allowed inside of an H4?

(And what's up with those heading levels? Should it actually be an H2, or an H4? Or H-something-else-entirely?)

Is it possible that that markup is modified by scripting, so that's not what Nu saw?

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