
On Oct 8th Lee Passey wrote:
4. Book titles should be marked with the <h1> element, "part" titles should be marked with the <h2> element, chapter titles should be marked with the <h3> element, "section" titles should be marked with the <h4> element, and "sub-section" titles should be marked with the <h5> element. If a title is composed of both a main title and a subtitle, the subtitle should be distinguished from the main title by adding "class='subtitle'" as an attribute of the title element. Author's names in book titles should be indicated by <h1 class="author">.
My question is whether writing, for example: <h3>CHAPTER 12</h3> <h3 class="subtitle">"WOULD YOU?"</h3> as I think Lee is suggesting above, has any advantages (or disadvantages) over what I currently do which is: <h3>CHAPTER 12</h3> <div class="chapter-title">"WOULD YOU?"</div> (N.B. I had in any case been thinking of changing what I currently do to: <h3>CHAPTER 12</h3> <div class="h3-title">"WOULD YOU?"</div> largely on the grounds that it seemed more general not to bind by suggestive naming that <h3> be used only for chapters, (although Lee seems to want to do this anyway). As implementing this change entails quite a lot of work, I would appreciate hearing any thoughts anyone has on this possibly rather trivial question. Bob Gibbins