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Using headings

Using headings - HTML Tutorial

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Using headings

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- [Instructor] When you were first learning to write, what was one of the first things your teacher told you to do to organize your thoughts for that paper? That's right, start with an outline and then use that outline to establish the logical flow of your thoughts for the paper. The tool to use in HTML for outlining the structure of your content on a page or within a section are the heading elements, commonly referred to as the h tags with heading numbers, so they would be h1, h2, and so forth. They follow most of the same rules that you're already familiar with for creating outlines for papers. To help illustrate this, have unit01.html open in brackets and I'll click the Live Preview button here on the sidebar, so that it'll open up our page in our browser and we can see a live preview as we're writing our tags. Let's use the heading tags to outline the information on this page and convey the level of importance for each part of the page to our learners. Let's start with the name of…

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