- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:50:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>, Terry Morris <lsnbluff@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
(My answers here are based on the current text of HTML5, which could of course change.) On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Ben Boyle wrote: > > If I have a block of content, I can mark that with <section>. [...] > > Now, that section can be nested in many different documents in many > different places, and I don't care if the heading is "h1" or "h6" ... I > only care that it is the heading for that section. This is what I want. > [...] > > [...] if I then include that section 3 levels deep in another document, > does the use of <h1> assign it higher significance? No. > What if there are sibling sections from other sources that use <h2> > instead? Are they of less importance? [...] Same importance. The relative ranks (the 1-6 part of <h1>-<h6>) only have an effect within the scope of an actual sectioning element (like <section>), and don't affect anything else. (Note that <header> is just a wrapper around one or more <hx> elements. It can't be used without an <hx> descendant.) > [...] I'm just confused by the potential conflict for the between the > heading level explicitly defined by the h1-h6 tags vs the inferred > heading level based on their placement within nested sections of a > document. Which has precedence? It's all defined in detail here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-sections.html#headings There are examples there too which may be of use if the prose is not very clear. I do think that the Author's Guide that Lachlan is working on could benefit from having a more readable (and less pedantic) version of the algorithms described in the aforementioned section. I think that would be really helpful to authors, because the actual exact pedantic algorithms are not very easy to understand. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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