H1 and A

Can they work together?

[fischermx]

It is technically possible and sematically valid to have H1 as links?
What do you think?

[Robin_reala]

I have done on occasion, but usually only when using an h1 image replacement wih the company's logo. It seems to be a generally accepted 'web paradigm' to link the company logo back to the home page.

[tedster]

The semantics of this always seem pretty dicey to me. After all, the h1 is supposed to be THE (or sometimes, at least, "a") major heading for the page content that follows it. So why would it also be a link that takes people away from the page?

There's no technical reason that it can't be done -- and I have done it, but very rarely. A bit more often I have included a link within the h2 tag, but the with the same semantic misgivings.

[g1smd]

I have had the <h1> with a a name="mainheading" attribute when linked TO from a contents section.

[choster]

I wouldn't see a problem with such markup as

<h1>Alternatives to <a href="muenchian.html">Muenchian Grouping</a></h1>

but I would say it's case by case, depending on the architecture and interface elements of the individual site. The need to hyperlink from any heading declines when rich navigation, related links blocks, etc. are added to the page.

[monkeythumpa]

I do it all the time with H2s and H3s so there should not be any technical issues with it, only logic issues.

[cellularnews]

We do it - but only on the "printer frindly pages" as they are designed to be printed and not really navigated through.

Hence, we have a CSS adjusted H1 which is also a hyperlink - and it points to our home page.

Thus, we now have some 14,000 pages pointing to the home page, each with keyword rich "titles".

It all helps the SEO.