[thelist] Coding standards.... [headers]

tim tim at hyperlinkage.com
Tue Dec 12 20:27:22 CST 2006


Matt Warden wrote:
> This will upset half of us. This is exactly what the other half of us
> have been saying.
> 
> h1
>    h2
> h1
>    h2

I'm pretty sure that some have been against more than a single H1 tag 
per document.

 > Do you have a link, btw?

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-structural.html#sec_8.5.

And yes, this does mention that skipping levels is "considered to be" 
bad practice.  However, it does not use the wording (must or should) 
that usually appears in a W3C document.  Hence, I argue that it's still 
an option for our style guides rather than set in stone.

Tim

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