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Heading

Meaning in web development, with examples

/ˈhedɪŋ/nounCore term

In web development, heading means: A title for a page or section, marked up with the elements h1 to h6, where h1 is the main title and the others show lower levels.

In Turkish: başlık

How it is used

Headings form the outline of a page for screen readers and search engines, so developers keep a logical heading order and avoid skipping levels just to get a smaller font size.

Example sentences

  1. Each page should have one main heading in an h1.

  2. The section headings jump from h2 to h5, so the outline is confusing.

Common collocations

  • main heading
  • heading level
  • section heading
  • heading structure
  • semantic HTMLHTML that uses elements according to their meaning, such as nav, main, article and button, instead of generic div and span elements for everything.
  • elementA single building block of an HTML page, such as a paragraph, image or button, usually written as an opening tag, content and a closing tag.
  • screen readerSoftware that reads the content of a screen aloud or sends it to a braille display, used mainly by blind and visually impaired people.
  • SEOSearch Engine Optimization: work that helps a site's pages to be found, understood and shown higher in search engines such as Google.

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