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From: Iain Harrison
Date: Tue, Oct 19 2004 10:30AM
Subject: Re[2]: HTML heading styles
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 2:19:24 PM, julian.rickards wrote:
> I have always felt that documents must be structured like a tree with
> branches: if the trunk is h1, then the branches off the trunk are h2, etc.
> You cannot skip from the trunk to a distant branch (h5) without passing
> through h2, h3, and h4 branches. As Jukka wrote, if h4 is too large, use
> styles to resize it or de-emphasize it.
That makes no sense to me. Some large trunks of the trees in my
garden (photo on our web page) have tiny twigs growing out out them,
as well as smaller branches.
If you redefine H4 to be smaller on the page, where does that leave
a page with both H3 and H4 content? Either they'll be hard to
distinguish, or you'll have inconsistency between pages.
I skip style levels where necessary.
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Iain
From: Tina Vance
Date: Tue, Oct 19 2004 10:51AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: HTML heading styles
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On Oct 19, 2004, at 12:25 PM, iain wrote:
> If you redefine H4 to be smaller on the page, where does that leave
> a page with both H3 and H4 content? Either they'll be hard to
> distinguish, or you'll have inconsistency between pages.
If you have specific uses, such as the "related links" example, don't
style the h4 specifically. Styling the specific tag makes it useless
for any other task on the page, as Iain pointed out. Instead, create a
style class that can be applied to the header, whatever the header is,
but will leave the general styling of that tag's instances alone on the
rest of the page.
If you create a class, you can use it on any header tag, keeping the
tree structure of the header tags intact.
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Tina Vance
From: julian.rickards
Date: Tue, Oct 19 2004 11:32AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: HTML heading styles
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What I meant when I said to resize H3 because it was too large, was not on
an individual basis but as a whole. H1 is very large and with CSS there are
many ways to maintain its visual emphasis even if you style it smaller such
as centering it, coloring it, adding a background or border or some other
decoration. I (and I am not alone here by any means) have seen many web
sites where the primary heading was H4 "because H1 to H3 were too large".
This is what I was getting at.
Jules
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From: Iain Harrison
Date: Tue, Oct 19 2004 3:51PM
Subject: Re[2]: HTML heading styles
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 5:56:58 PM, design wrote:
> I find this frustrating. Anyone else? Thoughts?
I. Page Header</h1
A. Sub head subject
i. Sub-sub head
ii. Second sub-sub head
B. Next Sub head subject
i. Sub-sub of this one
a. sub-sub-sub relating to the above
ii. Second sub-sub head
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Iain