Best way to display headlines?

What is the best way to display H1 and H2 headlines? Is it to insert breaks <BR> where I'd like the lines to end or is it better to just let them display the way each browser handles it?

Thanks for your help.

 

H1 and H2 but then customise the look using CSS IMO

 

dct, thanks for your post. I don't know a great deal about CSS. I'm not clear on what you're saying, can you create the breaks in the CSS?

 

Yeah you can do a lot of formatting in CSS, just do a search for CSS tutorial or something similar.

 

I'm always using css styles for my websites, works great. I'm using from H1 to H3 in webpages. You can find a css tutorial here: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp find more info about heading tags here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp

 

Another great thing about CSS is that it's very lite weight and clean, which is something that the search engines find very sexy.

Plus, it can save you a lot of time in the long run. If you ever needed to change an element on every page (such as font size), you could simply edit your stylesheet file, instead of editing each page individually.

 

I just thought about this, I use a external CSS, so how would I be able to control the formatting of a headline on an individual page? Wouldn't whatever I do have to effect all of the headlines?

Thanks.

 

You can assign a class to a heading on a given page if it needs to be different from other pages.