react-h-tag

Automate heading levels for your React app.

Installation

npm install react-h-tag

Or, if you prefer yarn:

yarn add react-h-tag

Requirements

react-h-tag uses React 16.9.0+ as a peer dependency.

Usage

In order to create a heading element, use the H component.

import { H } from 'react-h-tag'

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>some fancy big h1</h1>

      <H>this will be an h2</H>
    </div>
  )
}

By default all H components will render as <h2> elements—in order to automatically increase heading levels all you need to do is wrap H in an HLevel.

import { H, HLevel } from 'react-h-tag'

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>some fancy big h1</h1>

      <H>second best, this is a h2</H>

      <HLevel>
        <H>just a modest h3</H>
      </HLevel>
    </div>
  )
}

You can nest HLevels to let the heading system increase the heading level even further. However, the heading level maxes out at <h6> since there's no such thing as <h7>, <h8>, etc.

import { H, HLevel } from 'react-h-tag'

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>some fancy big h1</h1>

      <H>second best, this is a h2</H>

      <HLevel>
        <H>just a modest h3</H>

        <HLevel>
          <H>smaller now, it's a h4</H>

          <HLevel>
            <H>h5</H>

            <HLevel>
              <H>h6</H>

              <HLevel>
                <H>still an h6, we maxed it out.</H>
              </HLevel>
            </HLevel>
          </HLevel>
        </HLevel>
      </HLevel>
    </div>
  )
}

Adjusting heading levels

By default, you shouldn't have to worry much about your heading levels. Just drop H components throughout your app and they'll figure out what they need to be based on whether they're inside an HLevel context or not.

However, occasionally you have two heading levels side by side, like in the following HTML:

<div>
  <h2>heading 2</h2>
  <h3>heading 3</h3>
</div>

As a convenience for these situations, you can use the increase prop to adjust the level of the current H tag

<div>
  <H>heading 2</H>
  <H increase={1}>heading 3</H>
</div>

Trade-Offs & Caveats

h1 tags

By design, react-h-tag does not allow you to create h1 tags. Since you should only have a single h1 tag on your page, there isn't much need to dynamically figure out h1 tags. This decisions helps you avoid accidentally shipping multiple h1 tags and shooting yourself in the foot.