RE: [Docutils-users] h1, etc

[Mark M. <mar...@mc...>]

[David Goodger [mailto:go...@us...]]
> Check the "class" attribute on the "h1" tags, and you will see a
> difference.

It took a while for this to sink in.  I mean, I saw the class="title".  I
know how to use CSS.  But I just didn't get it.  The aha moment came when I
saw Greg Ward's reply.  I think I just needed to know someone else had
struggled with this too.  And then I got over it, just like that.

If I were to try to express the wherefore of it myself, I'd say, "The first
section is special--there's only one of those.  Rather than use a plain H1
for that, we use <H1 class="title"/> so that we can use H1 again within the
document.  The reason we do this?  HTML only has H1-H6, so by making H1 do
double duty, we effectively reserve these tags to provide 6 levels of
heading beyond the single document title."

Cheers,

// mark

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