> -----Original Message----- > From: Katrina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 3 October 2005 10:35 AM > To: Web Standards Group > Subject: [WSG] WE05 > > "Who has ever seen a div with a class of header? Why not use a header > (eg.<h1>) element?" > > Aren't the header tags reserved for text? Is it acceptable > form to place > non-textual elements only inside of header tags? Eg. <h1><img > src="image.jpg" alt="An image"></h1> ?
Placing an image in the h1 tag should be fine, as long as it actually is a "heading". However, using a <h1> for an entire header (top area of a page) I think is a misuse of the tag. <h1> is meant for headings, not headers. A "heading", to my understanding, is the title of a piece of content and there will be generally one individual heading per page. A "header" is the top area of a website and actually a markup of layout, not content. If we started putting our entire headers into <h1> tags we would end up with a lot of crap in them that doesn't belong there. People might start dumping banners, logos and other stuff into the <h1> tags. Would be great for search engine optimisation, but not really agreeable with correct markup. :) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
