Re: That annoying duplicate <h1> issue

Duplicate <h1> is really bad semantically and due to this fact, it is also
really bad for SEO reasons.
This must be removed from the HTML itself, not only dynamically/using CSS.

☆*PhistucK*



On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:

> I was just thinking about that annoying issue we've got, where we have
> duplicate <h1>s on a page: one of my personal pet peeves.
>
> The auto generated <h1> has got a class of firstHeading (and an ID the
> same, for that matter). If just put
>
> .firstHeading { display: none; }
>
> In common.css, surely that would get rid of our issue?
>
> I haven't done it yet, because I thought I'd just check that it wouldn't
> ruin anything on the site first. It does mean that we'd need to make sure
> titles are manually added to all pages (via =a manual h1=, or by using the
> title for field in the form templates.)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chris Mills
> Opera Software, dev.opera.com
> W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org
> Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M)
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