React Headings

Never worry about using the wrong heading level (h1, h2, etc.) in complex React apps!

React-headings maintains the proper hierarchy of headings for improved accessibility and SEO, no matter the component structure, while you keep full control of what's rendered.

References:

• WCAG 2.0 technique H69
• Lighthouse SEO heading order audit

Table of contents

• Demos
• Highlights
• Installation
• Examples
• API
• Changelog
• Contributing

Demos

• Minimal
• Custom component
• Advanced structure

Highlights

• Improves SEO and accessibility
• Supports server-side rendering
• Under 1 kB minified & gzipped
• Typed with TypeScript
• Fully tested
• Works with any CSS solutions (Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, etc.)
• Plays nicely with component libraries (Material UI, etc.)
• Follows semantic versioning

Installation

npm install react-headings

Examples

Basic usage

import React from "react";
import { H, Section } from "react-headings";

function App() {
  return (
    <Section component={<H>My hx</H>}>
      <div>...</div>
      <div>...</div>
      <div>...</div>
      <Section component={<H>My hx+1</H>}>
        <div>...</div>
        <div>...</div>
        <div>...</div>
      </Section>
    </Section>
  );
}

Advanced structure

Child components inherit the current level of their parent:

import React from "react";
import { H, Section } from "react-headings";

function ParentComponent() {
  return (
    <Section component={<H>My hx</H>}>
      <Section component={<H>My hx+1</H>}>
        <Section component={<H>My hx+2</H>}>
          <ChildComponent />
        </Section>
      </Section>
    </Section>
  );
}

function ChildComponent() {
  return (
    <Section component={<H>My hy</H>}>
      {/* The following heading would be a <h5> in the current context */}
      <Section component={<H>My hy+1</H>}>
        <p>...</p>
      </Section>
    </Section>
  );
}

Styling

A heading can be styled like any ordinary <hx> element since it accepts all the same props:

import React from "react";
import { H, Section } from "react-headings";

function App() {
  return (
    <Section component={<H className="my-class">My hx</H>}>
      ...
    </Section>
  );
}

Custom heading

A heading can be as complex as we want:

import React from "react";
import { H, Section } from "react-headings";
import MyIcon from "./MyIcon";

function App() {
  return (
    <Section
      component={
        <div className="my-div">
          <MyIcon className="my-icon" />
          <H className="my-heading">My hx</H>
        </div>
      }
    >
      <div>...</div>
      <div>...</div>
      <div>...</div>
    </Section>
  );
}

Using component libraries

Leveraging Component and level from the context allows the use of component libraries. Here's an example with Material UI:

import React from "react";
import { useLevel } from "react-headings";
import { Typography } from "@material-ui/core";

function MyHeading(props) {
  const { Component } = useLevel();

  return <Typography component={Component} {...props} />;
}

API

<H> component

Renders a <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5> or <h6> depending on the current level.

Props

Name	Type	Required	Description
render	function	No	Override with a custom heading. Has precedence over children.
children	node	No	The content of the heading. Usually the title.

Any other props will be passed to the heading element.

Example

import React from "react";
import { H } from "react-headings";

function Example1() {
  return <H>This is my title</H>;
}

function Example2() {
  return (
    <H render={({ level, Component }) => <Component>My h{level}</Component>} />
  );
}

<Section> component

Creates a new section (a heading and its level).

Props

Name	Type	Required	Description
component	node	Yes	The heading component. Can be anything but best used in combination with <H>.
children	node	No	The content of the new level.

Example

import React from "react";
import { Section, H } from "react-headings";

function Example1() {
  return (
    <Section component={<H>This is my title</H>}>
      This is my content
    </Section>
  );
}

function Example2() {
  return (
    <Section
      component={
        <div>
          <div>
            <H>This is my title</H>
          </div>
        </div>
      }
    >
      This is my content
    </Section>
  );
}

useLevel hook

Returns an object containing the current level and current Component.

Arguments

None

Returns

Name	Type	Description
level	1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6	The current level.
Component	"h1" | "h2" | "h3" | "h4" | "h5" | "h6"	The current component. Same as level.

Example

import React from "react";
import { useLevel } from "react-headings";

function Example(props) {
  const { level, Component } = useLevel();

  return <Component {...props}>This is a h{level}</Component>;
}

Changelog

For a list of changes and releases, see the changelog.

Contributing

Found a bug, have a question or looking to improve react-headings? Open an issue, start a discussion or submit a PR!