Headings in HTML come in the form of h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 tags. They are used to break up the text on your page into grouping for easier reading and better SEO.
A page should always contain an h1 if possible. Usually this will come in the form of what you used for the title of the page in the head of your document. See HTML – Basic Page Template for a brief explanation of the title tag.
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<h5>Heading 5</h5>
<h6>Heading 6</h6>
Then, if you have enough text on the page to warrant having subheadings, they would come as h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 tags. While your page should only contain one h1 heading, these subheadings can each be used as many times as necessary on the page. However, it is rare to need to use the full range of tags. You’ll find yourself using h2 and h3 the most frequently, and that will often suffice in breaking up your text.
Using Heading Tags as Page Structure
Think of the page structure as an outline of what you’re trying to say. The h1 heading may be the article name and you may have 3 subparts of equal value that are split up under their respective h2 headings, and each h2 may contain any number of h3 headings, and so on.
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
<p>Text goes here.</p>
By default browsers will display the headings in a text size going from largest h1 to smallest h6. However, you can change the sizing by using CSS to style the various headings to your liking.
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HTML NOTES:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (
ptag =pelement = paragraph on the page) - HTML5 is not case sensitive; so
Pis the same asp,ÂH1is the same ash1 - Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
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