Headings

Do

Learn to organize your paragraphs under descriptive headings, and apply "styles" to these headings. This habit will make it easier for anyone to scan through your document and find the parts of the document they want to read, an attribute known as "scannability."

• In most software applications and web content management systems, you can highlight the text you want to make into a heading and apply built-in styles using the styles menu on the formatting toolbar.
• If you are developing a website, you can similarly use CSS to set the style of all headings on the site in one place.

Do Example

Use

styles

menus

in

Drupal

Don't

Don't use the text options in the formatting toolbar to change the look of each heading in a document or webpage.

Don't Example

Don't use text options to style headings

eading tags should never be used to control font characteristics alone. They should reflect the semantic structure of the content.  

Do

On Web Pages

• Use level 1 headings to indicate the title, topic, or purpose of each page.  
• Repeat all or part of the level 1 heading in the browser page title of webpages. 
• Use level 2 headings to indicate each main section of the document.  
• Use level 3 headings to indicate sub-sections. 
• Use level 4, 5, and 6 headings to indicate sub-sub-sections.

In Digital Documents

• Some people use multiple level 1 headings and mark the document title with a