<H6></H6>

Display text as less than H5 but more than default text

Part of the page body that is used to identify text that is displayed as the sixth most prominent heading on the page.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
        <h1>First Document Title</h1>
            .
            .
        <h2>Second Level Document Title</h2>
            .
            .
        <h3>Third Level Document Title</h3>
            .
            .
        <h4>Fourth Level Document Title</h4>
            .
            .
        <h5>Fifth Level Document Title</h5>
            .
            .
==>>    <h6>Sixth Level Document Title</h6>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

The official specification encourages web authors to use the headings in sequence and not skip any numbers. This would mean that you use the headings just like in a word processing document to construct a document structure. The thought is that some automated tool might, for example, be able to scan the page and construct a table of contents. It also suggests that browsers display the heading indented same as normal text more than H5, using a normal bold font.

You can have as many of these as you want. Don't include any other tags other than the text. You can make this a link if you want by including the <A>...</A> construct for the heading text.

HTML 3.0 Draft

Expands the scope and use of headings, recognizing that headings are related to lists in structuring documents. Sometimes headings are numbered or include a graphic. Some new attributes assist the author in specifying those items.

Heading specific attributes include SEQNUM, SKIP and DINGBAT.

SEQNUM: Sequence numbers are assigned to all Hn elements starting with the top level. It generally starts at 1 at the beginning of the document and increments as each Hn element is encountered as long as it's n is not less than the one before it. This will mainly be used with style sheets that define a heading numbering pattern. As an example, if the pattern is supposed to be 1.1.1.1.1.1, then the first H1 would be 1., the first H2 under that H1 would be 1.1, the first H3 under the first H2 would be 1.1.1 and so on.
This attribute is used to explicitly set the number for this element. For example, if this is the first H6 and you put SEQNUM=3 then the heading would be 1.1.1.1.1.3. according to the previous pattern.
SKIP: If you've left headers out of the sequence then you use this attribute to adjust the sequence numbering for this heading before it is displayed.
DINGBAT: This attribute lets you choose from a list of standard icon entities to display a graphic preceding the header. The names for these icons are like the names for the special characters, for example, &caution; would display a warning sign in front of the heading.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <H6 SEQNUM=3 DINGBAT=&caution;>Number 3 Heading</H6>

Image specific attributes include SRC and MD.

SRC: Specifies the image to appear in the context of where this attribute is used.
MD: Specifies a message digest or cryptographic checksum that is used to validate the linked item you retrieve is in fact the item you expect it to be.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <H6 SRC="MyHeading.gif" MD="md5:faV2O5+ddsuHKbd87UYjf/WecvFc">Number 3 Heading</H6>

Attributes common to almost all of the block style tags include ALIGN, CLEAR and NOWRAP. These attributes will be very useful when they are fully implemented by the browser developers.

ALIGN: Used to specify the horizontal positioning of the associated element. The value can be left, center, right, and justify. Left puts the element flush with the left margin, right puts the element flush with the right margin, center centers the element between the margins and justify attempts to spread the element, if applicable, so that it reaches from left to right margin. If the element can't be justified then it puts the element flush with the left margin.
CLEAR: Used to specify the vertical positioning of a block element. This lets you start a block below a figure or table, or next to it if there is a certain amount of space for your text. You can specify left, right or all to indicate that you want the left margin, right margin or both margins clear before you start displaying your text.
Instead of clearing the margins you can also tell the browser that if there is a certain amount of space next to a table or figure then it can display your text. You do this by putting in an amount of space in "en" units or in pixels. You would put a value such as "50 en" for 50 "en" spaces or "130 pixels" for 130 pixels.
NOWRAP: Used to tell the browser to not do automatic line breaks. This means your text displays on one long line unless you put in explicit line breaks using the <BR> tag.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <H6 ALIGN=center CLEAR="50 pixels" NOWRAP>Number 3 Heading</H6>

Attributes common to almost all of the tags permitted in the document body include ID, LANG and CLASS. You probably won't be using any of these tags for a while but I've included them so you know they are coming.

ID: A name to be used as a target for links or for naming particular elements in a style sheet. These take the place of the HTML 2.0 <A NAME="somename">Some Name</A> construct that defines internal document links.
LANG: An ISO standard language abbreviation that defines language specific elements to be used.
CLASS: Used to assign a class name to a tag.
An example of these attributes in use is:: <H6 ID="topicone" LANG="en-US" CLASS=section>Number 3 Heading</H6>

Netscape

Implements the ALIGN attribute with [center|left|right].

Microsoft IE

Nothing special.

Internationalization

See the discussion of the LANG attribute.

The Rusk Family . . . "the Legend Continues"

Michael T. Rusk
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