H4 tages in FF and IE

[bode]

I've reluctantly added an H4 tag for seo purposes on my homepage.

It looks fine in Firefox 3, however the text is huge in IE7.

Do the browsers view these tags differently?

The site is validated in W3C as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Thanks

[g1smd]

So why not style the H4 to be a certain size, using a single CSS rule?

[tedster]

Yes, browsers all have their own defualt values for elements like H tags. Use CSS rules make them look the way you want.

an H4 tag for seo purposes

There's going to be very little, if any, SEO value from an H4 tag compared to normal text in a paragaph. The intention of all the H tags is that they create a semantic outline of your document - H1 for the main topic, H2 for the subtopics, H3 for the sub-subtopics and so on. Once you get below H2 the SEO signal is not very strong at all.

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[g1smd]

I rarely get as far as H4 in a document.

I believe that I have never used H5 or H6.

[bode]

Thanks for the info, I've scrapped the H tags..it spoilt the design. I've placed some bold anchor text in there instead.

[g1smd]

Run your document through the W3C HTML Validator but with the "show outline" option enabled. You'll get back a bullet-point indented list of all your heading tag text. If they don't collectively look like a summary of your document, then you're not using them right.

[tedster]

it spoilt the design

There's no reason that needs to happen. You can use any H tag and style it to look any way that your design requires.