[RESOLVED] [HTML] Question on <h> tags

[dday9]

I'm teaching myself HTML and what I'm doing is writting a vb.net tutorial in pure html since I'm allready familiar with vb.net. My question is, with <h> tags right now I'm doing this:

<h1 id="variables">
   <font color="black">
   Visual Basic.Net - Variables
   </font>
  </h1>
  
  <h2 id="datatypes">
   <center>
    <font color="blue">
    Data Types
    </font>
   </center>
  </h2>
 
<h3 id="syntax">
   <center>
    <font color="blue">
     Syntax
    </font>
   </center>
  </h3>

I do want the <h1> to be the biggest, because that's the main point of this particular article. But my question is, for the datatypes and syntax, could I use <h2> for both, just with a different ID, like this:

<h2 id="datatypes">
   <center>
    <font color="blue">
    Data Types
    </font>
   </center>
  </h2>
 
<h2 id="syntax">
   <center>
    <font color="blue">
     Syntax
    </font>
   </center>
  </h3>

or is that not good practice?

[techgnome]

well... are they at the same level, or is syntax a sub-header of datatypes? Think of H tags a being part of an outline... h1 is your 1. line... h2 would be your 1.1 line, and h3 would be 1.1.1 ... so if syntax is a subheader of datatypes, and you want this:
1 - Variables
1.1 - Datatypes
1.1.1 - Syntax

then use h1/h2/h3

But if you want
1 - Variables
1.1 - Datatypes
1.2 - Syntax

then use h1/h2/h2
(hint this is the option that in my opinion is the correct one semantically)

-tg

[dday9]

Thanks TG, that cleared it up for me. The latter is what I was aiming for.

[techgnome]

jsut for edification.... to get

1 - Variables
1.1 - Datatypes
1.1.1 - Value Types
1.1.2 - Reference Types
1.2 - Syntax
it's h1
h2
h3
h3
h2
.
.
.

as I stated the H tags can be thought of the header lines of an outline.

-tg