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Learn more about Labs What are the default CSS styling of heading tags? (H1, h2, h3, h4, h5) Ask Question Asked 9 years, 5 months ago Modified 10 months ago Viewed 71k times 27

In HTML, headings are denoted with <H>(1,2,3,4,5,6) tag.

My question is regarding following HTML code:

<div class="pure-u-1-1 pure-u-lg-3-3"> <h3><form:label path="gen">Registrer Bruker</form:label></h3> </div>

Instead of writing <H3>, i want to write property of class in CSS ; which gives same font size (look and feel); as of heading HTML gives. Also is there predefined property for same in CSS?

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Share Improve this question Follow edited Jun 23, 2015 at 3:48 fatherazrael asked Jun 22, 2015 at 13:11 fatherazraelfatherazrael 5,9191818 gold badges8484 silver badges185185 bronze badges 7

• 4 Please fix your grammar, it's difficult to understand. – fauverism Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:13
• possible duplicate of Can a CSS class inherit one or more other classes? – JBux Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:14
• @fauverism Why do you want to do that? – Martin Thoma Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:15
• I don't think CSS itself has anything 'predefined' does it? You would just create your own rules for the classes. – Lee Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:15
• @Lee May be term predefined is wrong. Here i mean Just like font-weight, font-size, width, height, is there any like header-1 or big-header or i need classes only? – fatherazrael Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:19

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The answer is no, however you might hack the styles. Most browsers will try to use these styles

(Taken from: w3schools)

h1 { display: block; font-size: 2em; margin-top: 0.67em; margin-bottom: 0.67em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } h2 { display: block; font-size: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.83em; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } h3 { display: block; font-size: 1.17em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } h4 { display: block; margin-top: 1.33em; margin-bottom: 1.33em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } h5 { display: block; font-size: .83em; margin-top: 1.67em; margin-bottom: 1.67em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } h6 { display: block; font-size: .67em; margin-top: 2.33em; margin-bottom: 2.33em; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; font-weight: bold; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 22, 2015 at 13:23 answered Jun 22, 2015 at 13:20 Guillermo MansillaGuillermo Mansilla 3,85922 gold badges3030 silver badges3434 bronze badges 2

• 1 Missing: h4 font-size: 1em – Feyyaz Commented Aug 16, 2019 at 14:29
• By definition all text has a font-size of 1em; ... 1em basically means "100% normal text size". Since it's the default, there isn't any need to specify it with a CSS rule. – machineghost Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 23:01

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Are there predefined property for same in CSS; which gives same look and feel as H gives?

No.

The default style of a heading is (in most browsers) exactly that: a collection of different CSS rules coupled with an Hn selector (and stored in the browser stylesheet).

There isn't a (plain CSS) way to automatically copy all of those rules.

You could use the Inspector tool that comes in the developer tools built into most browsers to examine a heading and look at the default rules for it, and then copy those rules to your own (author) stylesheet.

There may be some variations between browsers, so you'll generally want to set the Hn rules explicitly too.

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 22, 2015 at 13:21 answered Jun 22, 2015 at 13:15 QuentinQuentin 941k132132 gold badges1.3k1.3k silver badges1.4k1.4k bronze badges 1

• You could use javascript. See stackoverflow.com/questions/754607/… – David P Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 13:21

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Question: is there predefined property for same in CSS?

No

You can try like this:

h3{ display: block; } h3 { font-size: /*Font size similar to h3*/ ; } Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jun 22, 2015 at 13:15 Rahul TripathiRahul Tripathi 172k3232 gold badges289289 silver badges339339 bronze badges Add a comment | -6

Think a good practice is let h<1-6> keep their default styles. And then add a class to add additional styles. Just seems cleaner to me, and you are not hacking the "master styles." Pros and Cons I'm sure.

<h1 class="h1">Hello CSS</h1>

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Aug 30, 2016 at 19:49 Edward PotterEdward Potter 3,82044 gold badges2929 silver badges3939 bronze badges Add a comment |

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