<article> & H1s

I have a page that is a single article of content (think newspaper article). And that content is wrapped in an <article> tag. However the H1 (the title of the article) is outside of the <article> tag and is closer to the top, opening <body> tag. On the page are sidebars, ads, nav, branded header, search bar etc.

Shouldn’t the <h1> (the title of the article) be inside of the <article> tag? Or does it matter?

I understand that if I had an ‘index’ page of sorts, that showed “multiple” snippets of news stories, the <h1> of the page might be “This weeks news”, and then the title of each of the news snippets could be an h2, and within the <article> tag.

I think I’m over thinking this.

Jeana Clark
jclark@veritashealth.com

Received on Tuesday, 8 September 2020 20:33:14 UTC