HTML Headings Formatting

Discussions critique and suggest improvements to the styling, hierarchy, spacing, capitalization, and semantic usage of headings like H1 and H2 in web pages, documents, and markup such as HTML or Markdown.

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Kiro Aug 31, 2020 View on HN

What problems do skipping headings cause?

dmur Dec 21, 2013 View on HN

because capitalized section headers are so dated

j-pb Oct 29, 2016 View on HN

Headers as in document headlines and literate programming not as in header files.

breppp May 6, 2025 View on HN

They definitely missed on using underlines for headings

porridgeraisin Oct 13, 2024 View on HN

It'll be nice if you could make it level 2 headers. Reason: if we want to make it html to display as a webpage, we won't end up with multiple H1s, and we can have a H1 for like the name of the app or something.

michaelmior Jul 19, 2023 View on HN

I can't be the only one who finds that the headings are far too close to the body text.

verve_rat Mar 18, 2022 View on HN

This seems like an argument for using headings. The "list" part seems irrelevant.

randiantech Jun 30, 2016 View on HN

Offtopic, but the header of the page makes doc hard to read.

TurkishPoptart Apr 26, 2023 View on HN

This piece could benefit from some H1/H2 headers to break up the text.

shaklee3 Dec 11, 2018 View on HN

This site needs better formatting. It looks like the author has section titles, but they're the same font and style as the body.