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Re: HTML heading styles

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 19, 2004 11:35AM

> H1 is the page heading
> H2 is a sub-heading
> H3 is a sub-sub-heading
> H4 reads "Related content" and precedes a list of links to related pages on
> the website
>
> It's very possible that there may not be any content suitable for inclusion
> at the H3 level but there are related content links. It strikes me that it
> would be stranger to suddenly move "Related content" up to H3 than to simply
> skip H3.

It seems like in this case that the related content is a child of the
subheading. When there is an h3 are the related content links specific to
the sub-sub heading or are so related to the subheading and not directly to
the sub-sub heading?

The question you're asking can't really be answered without knowing more
about the taxonomy of the site in question. You could conceivably have
related content links for more than one level of the page structure, and it
is desirable to have a structure that complements this. This would mean
having related content as an h3 or an h4, or both, but we can't tell without
seeing the content.

AWK

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