Computer says NO to HTML5 document outline
by Steve Faulkner.
What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading element (when used in conjunction with sectioning elements). What mattered was the nesting level of the H1-h6 in sectioning elements, just like the X<H>TML promised land, but […]
HTML5 Element Index
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Sections
Grouping
Tables
Forms
Forms 2
Interactive
Edits
Embedded
Text-level
Text-level 2
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