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From: Andrew Arch
Date: Oct 19, 2004 11:22PM

A good way to think of web page headings is like a small table of contents
for an article or a book. You can lots of chapters with sections which
contain sub-sections which may contain sub-sub-section, but you would not
generally have a chapter with only sub-sub-sections and no sections. So, you
can have many of each heading level as long as you get the relative
hierarchy right.

Andrew
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-----Original Message-----
From: jkorpela [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 2:53 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] HTML heading styles

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, design wrote:

> Others have told me that once I move to H3, I should not be moving back up
> to H2 again... Obviously, you guys don't agree and my
information/criticism
> is flawed. ;)

Someone has misunderstood things, then. It makes no sense to set such
requirement, since it would mean that once you have started a subsection,
you can have no more new sections.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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