Comments on: Heading Tags

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:10:14 +0000

It’s great when you learn stuff like this through work, isn’t it? Directly or indirectly. I’m learning a lot of things myself — some stuff that I know in the back of my mind but haven’t really had a stance on before, and new stuff and realizations. IT really is a pretty interesting industry (or, well, at least for us in the industry, I suppose? :D)

I think I still have a few fanlistings on this, too. Meep?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:16:36 +0000

Looking back at my aging fanlistings, I’m seeing a lot of this :\ I think everyone went through this stage where they thought the only “good” HTML tags were div and p. That and “center” haha.

I completely agree: It makes things a lot quicker with the ‘proper’ tags. Headings are the most common to be used as divs back in the day.

Now that I work for RIM, I frequently visit my sites (for fun) on my Blackberry. Before, without headings, it would be a lot of random text. Now if there are heading tags, it’s easier to differentiate between body text and headings. Lots of the browsers don’t have full CSS support for mobile yet.

Great post — I think you’ve hit the mark with what every designer has done :P

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:21:26 +0000

Hmm, is it a trend way back when to use mostly blank DIV tags for headings and whatnot? I’ve seen a few around who do the same.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:43:17 +0000

I used to be exactly the same, everything would be in DIV tags, especially my titles. I’m really glad I weaned off it because it just makes things a lot quicker and easier to recycle the raw HTML coding :)

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:31:53 +0000

It’s a good post, isn’t it?

You hit it right on the head — becoming div-happy became more of a liability. Plus it does work out to having a bit more CSS code that needed, since divs are quite semantically blank, and thus are devoid of style (which should be). I’d like bigger test and boldface, but I’d have to manually code that in.

By: Keira

Keira — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:53:23 +0000

I went through the same sort of process with headings and stuff. I actually used to do something very similar (don’t worry I wasn’t copying you. I don’t think I even knew anything about you when I started doing that). I actually wouldn’t even use the P tag. Everything was in Div tags. It did start to get a bit ridiculous after a while. It was becoming quite a pain in the but to edit. I think I started moving to actually using the Header tags and the P tags when I started using WordPress and started making my own WP Themes. I carried it over to my sites that were not running with WordPress too. It is definitely nicer to look at when you’re editing code. It make a huge difference!!

That post you linked to really was quite interesting to read!