Fundamentals HTML course Ignores best practice from 1 step before?

Web Development Front-End
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Hi!

I was wondering something. I just read the article about MDN and how to search for things there and 1 thing that is shown in the article on Codecademy is the HTML best practices.
In the screenshots in the article you can see that one thing that seems important is to not use <h1 - 6> tags to style text, not use multiple h1 on a page and use them in order from h1 to h6 on a page.

In the next step you are asked to create a “blog” about fashion where step 10 asks you to add a h3 underneath an image.
This h3 tag is the first tag of it’s kind on the page, afterwards there is an h1 tag and multiple h2 tags.
Isn’t this counter intuitive?

Remco

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I was hoping there was going to be an answer to this thread. I realized the same exact thing. Feels wrong to leave it out of order.

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According to the standards in general there should be only one H1 on a web page but when it comes to h2-h6 you can use them as many times as you wish and you don’t really have to use them in order. It all depends on how you want to structure you web page. The best practice would eventually to use them in order as it can make it easier for you and others who might be working on the same web project to find themselves easily. @mikala773

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