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Re: HTML heading styles

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Oct 19, 2004 9:53AM

> Any opinions on this ? Please reply directly to me
> ( <EMAIL REMOVED> )as well as the list.

I wish html had tags like to indicate that this is a child header of
the parent. In your case, I don't think you have too much to worry about.
Skiping a header level shouldn't change the parent/child relationship. One
will always be a sub-level of the other regardless if it skips a level.

We've run into problems where we have components that need to write out
headers in other content. As there's no way to guarantee if the component
will be placed under a h1 or a h2, etc. we had to just guess and default it
to something like h4 just to ensure it was a child of its parent...even if
it meant it may on occasion skip a header when the complete page is
rendered.

So...it's one of those things that isn't perfect.

-Darrel