Correct use of headings
I was a closet h3 abuser, and I bet if you’d admit it a lot of you are too. What’s a h3 abuser? Well I’m gonna come out of the closet and tell you all about it. There are those little boxes On websites, especially blogs, there are those little boxes, often in column 1 or 3, full of links and stuff and they all have little headings. When making these little boxes you think “Well I should use a heading tag, because that’s more semantic. But those heading tags look too big and those ones look too small, but that one is just about the right size. I’ll make it h3.”
Hands up! Who defaults to h3when they know they need a heading but don’t know what size it should be?
I hope I’m not the only sucker with his or her hand up right now. Speaking in my defense though, I was considering the way it looked unstyled, which is good to do right? Who knew changing your ways and thinking semantically would be so hard? In a previous blog entry I ranted about how WYSIWYG had no place on the web and yet the way I dealt with heading tags was doing just that. OK, so, h1, h2, h3 etc. represent a hierarchy and despite best intentions I was still using them in relation to the size of heading they provide.
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