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That's certainly true, and in many cases you don't need it. You can definitely just put the <h1> (or <h2>, ...) tag on its own, and AFAIK that works just as well for screen readers, SEO, etc. But the advantage of a <header> is being able to group other things like inline icons, section anchor 🔗links, etc., and I find myself going back and adding those later often enough that I have just made a habit of using a <header> wrapper almost all the time. But with that said, it's a very YMMV situation, so feel free to skip the <header> if you feel confident you don't need more than the <h1>, there's nothing wrong with that semantically 😊
If you think of a magazine or newspaper article it makes more sense. Things like a byline, publication date, subtitle, those are all still part of the header for that article. You would want to group them semantically.
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Isn't it kind of redundant to use a 'header' tag just wrap an 'h1' tag? Seems to me to clutter up the dom structure...
That's certainly true, and in many cases you don't need it. You can definitely just put the
<h1>(or<h2>, ...) tag on its own, and AFAIK that works just as well for screen readers, SEO, etc. But the advantage of a<header>is being able to group other things like inline icons, section anchor 🔗links, etc., and I find myself going back and adding those later often enough that I have just made a habit of using a<header>wrapper almost all the time. But with that said, it's a very YMMV situation, so feel free to skip the<header>if you feel confident you don't need more than the<h1>, there's nothing wrong with that semantically 😊If you think of a magazine or newspaper article it makes more sense. Things like a byline, publication date, subtitle, those are all still part of the header for that article. You would want to group them semantically.