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From: julian.rickards
Date: Wed, Apr 30 2003 6:16AM
Subject: RE: Header tag
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It must be a bug because just like a book, H1 represents the title, H2
represents the chapter titles, H3 represents sections within each chapter
and so on. At the end of a chapter, you would jump back to H2 as the next
chapter title which makes perfect sense.

HTH,

Jules

<snip>
> I understand why heading tags should start with H1, followed
> by H2 then
> H3 for page title, section and subsection. What I don't understand is
> why you cannot start a new sub section, going from an subsection to a
> new section (e.g. H4 to H2).
</snip>


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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Wed, Apr 30 2003 10:18AM
Subject: RE: Header tag
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = wrote:

> It must be a bug because just like a book, H1 represents the title, H2
> represents the chapter titles, H3 represents sections within each chapter
> and so on. At the end of a chapter, you would jump back to H2 as the next
> chapter title which makes perfect sense.

Pardon? The question was:

> > What I don't understand is
> > why you cannot start a new sub section, going from an subsection to a
> > new section (e.g. H4 to H2).

When section (with h3 heading) contains a subsection (with h4 heading),
then some of the subsections must be the last one, and the next heading,
if any, is either an h3 heading (if there are more sections in the current
chapter) or an h2 heading (if the section was the last one in the current
chapter). Thus, an h4 heading can surely be followed by an h2 heading.

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


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