The H Hierarchy: Using Heading Tags the Right Way
First Clipped on Sep. 17, 2008
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If you've been using CSS and web standards for awhile, then you probably already know that the HTML heading tags h1-h6 are meant to denote a hierarchy of importance—the most important, of course, being <h1> and the least important being <h6>. If you're new to CSS layouts and web standards then you might think heading tags just make text bigger or smaller. But there's a lot more to heading tags than most web designers realize. And in order to build beautifully semantic websites that degrade gracefully, a proper understanding of the <h> tags is a must.
