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Bug 16637 - Can we have a site heading element to contain the title/logo of the site instead of people having to use h1 tags for the name of the site. It seems to be causing a lot of confusion about what to do. Thanks.
Summary: Can we have a site heading element to contain the title/logo of the site inst...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: a11y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-04-04 14:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-14 11:15 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-04 14:12:52 UTC
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Can we have a site heading element to contain the title/logo of the site
instead of people having to use h1 tags for the name of the site. It seems to
be causing a lot of confusion about what to do.

Thanks.

Posted from: 193.203.240.199
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:18:11 UTC
This bug was cloned to create bug 17925 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2012-09-14 11:15:33 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Rationale: The header element works great for this.