H3 HTML Tags are Right for Blog Posts

A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about <kbd></kbd> tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too (I jump directly to <h3></h3> tags instead of going by order, because the CSS for these tags looks better — in other words, I’ve been lazy by not fixing this), among potentially many other things. There are over a hundred semantic tags in HTML, and there’s a reason for each one. “Their tomb of standards” refers to the HTML Living Standard, and they (among other sources) explain why sub-headings in posts should actually be <h3></h3> tags (the way I’ve done it so far). Pretty simple when you think about it. The main header of the entire website is <h1> (in my case, “The Art of Not Asking Why”). Blog post headings are <h2> (as in the heading of this post, above). Blog post sub-headings are <h3>, as I was doing it. This is not just a style and…