Text Editor Basics Continued: Headings

To add a heading within the text editor, enter and select your heading text, then click on the dropdown in the menu bar that's set to Format by default, or Normal if text has already been entered. Here you'll see a variety of options, including headings 1 through 6, 1 being the largest and 6 being the smallest.

For accessibility purposes, headings should always be applied in hierarchical order. A page's title is always heading 1, top level section titles are heading 2, titles of subsections within each section are heading 3, and so on.

You'll never use heading 1, because it's reserved for the page title, and you most likely won't use heading 2, as that's what the individual block titles are typically set to.

In the case of accordion items, the accordion item's title is then heading 3. Therefore, if using headings within an accordion, you should start at heading 4 as seen in the headings under Guidelines for Collection Development in collection development policies