HTML - Subheading / Subtitle / SupTitle / Tagline / Slogan

This page is about the HTML Markup for

• subheadings,
• alternative titles
• or taglines

Note that before the creation of the hgroup element, HTML did not have any dedicated tag. This article shows you how to mark a subheading with and without hgroup.

With the hgroup, you can use heading tag because they will not create a section and will therefore not be added to the outline

<hgroup>
 <h1>Dr. Strangelove</h1>
 <h2>Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb</h2>
</hgroup>

This html solution where used before the creation of the hgroup ¹⁾

Grouped with a header element

<header>
  <p>SuperTitle of the year</p>
  <h1>Title</h1>
  <p>Subtitle</p>
  <p>Date: Draft 9 May 2013</p>
</header>

• by a colon: the subtitle of a book is on the same line as the title separated by a colon.

<h1>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers</h1>

• by a inline element such as span

<h1>Ramones <br>
<span>Hey! Ho! Let’s Go</span>
</h1>