H3 HTML Tags are Right for Blog Posts
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about tags, but toward the end I said this:
Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too (I jump directly to tags instead of going by order, because the CSS for these tags looks better — in other words, I’ve been lazy by not fixing this), among potentially many other things. There are over a hundred semantic tags in HTML, and there’s a reason for each one.
“Their tomb of standards” refers to the HTML Living Standard, and they (among other sources) explain why sub-headings in posts should actually be
tags (the way I’ve done it so far). Pretty simple when you think about it.
- The main header of the entire website is (in my case, “The Art of Not Asking Why”).
- Blog post headings are (as in the heading of this post, above).
- Blog post sub-headings are , as I was doing it.
This is not just a style and organizational thing; this is also how web browsers are programmed to read web pages, and they expect one
pair.
You’d notice I didn’t use the word “title” above, because in HTML the is reserved for metadata in the head part of the page (defined by <head></head>). It’s there, and it serves a purpose — it’s basically your website’s name or the title of your entire web document (we need to remember, these things originated and were based back on what was printed on paper).
OK. I was wrong and order is restored. If I want to do sub-sub-headings, there’s
for that. But if I get to that level of breaking down my posts, I think it’s a good sign that I’ve been writing too much in one go and should consider a smaller post.
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