Dave M G wrote: > Gunlaug , > > Thank you for responding. > > I considered using an <h2> tag or <h3>, but isn't it kind of arbitrary > as to which number it should be? > > I mean, if I do use a headline element, is there a reason to choose <h2> > instead of <h3>, or vice versa? Or <h4>, <h5>, or <h6>? > > The only one I'm pretty sure would definitely be excluded here is <h1>. > But then again... > > I'm afraid I'm not very good at determining what is appropriate semantic > markup for this. > > All of the heading tags are block level elements, so they would work better for your purposes than span elements, which are inline. In terms of which one to pick, it is a matter of preference. The browser will render h1 as the largest and h6 as the smallest. By default, most browsers display the contents of h1, h2 and h3 elements larger than the default size of the document text. h4 is usually the same size as the default text size and h5 and h6 are smaller than the default text size. Unfortunately this is all "usually" and "most" because the user agents are left to render these as they choose, but they are pretty consistent in the relative sizes. Of course, you can override all this with your own styles if you choose.
The best way to think of the header elements are that they are relative in size to your text. Lori ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
