<hgroup> HTML heading group element

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The <hgroup> HTML element represents a heading and related content. It groups a single <h1>–<h6> element with one or more <p>.

Try it

<hgroup>
  <h1>Frankenstein</h1>
  <p>Or: The Modern Prometheus</p>
</hgroup>
<p>
  Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create
  intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a
  monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who
  sees it, follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth.
</p>
hgroup {
  text-align: right;
  padding-right: 16px;
  border-right: 10px solid #00c8d7;
}

hgroup h1 {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

hgroup p {
  margin: 0;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Usage notes

The <hgroup> element allows the grouping of a heading with any secondary content, such as subheadings, an alternative title, or tagline. Each of these types of content represented as a <p> element within the <hgroup>.

The <hgroup> itself has no impact on the document outline of a web page. Rather, the single allowed heading within the <hgroup> contributes to the document outline.

Examples

html
<!doctype html>
<title>HTML Standard</title>
<body>
  <hgroup id="document-title">
    <h1>HTML: Living Standard</h1>
    <p>Last Updated 12 July 2022</p>
  </hgroup>
  <p>Some intro to the document.</p>
  <h2>Table of contents</h2>
  <ol id="toc">
    …
  </ol>
  <h2>First section</h2>
  <p>Some intro to the first section.</p>
</body>

Result

Technical summary

Content categories Flow content, heading content, palpable content.
Permitted content Zero or more <p> elements, followed by one h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, or h6 element, followed by zero or more <p> elements.
Tag omission None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents Any element that accepts flow content.
Implicit ARIA role group
Permitted ARIA roles Any
DOM interface HTMLElement

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# the-hgroup-element

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
hgroup
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 5 (Release date: 2010-05-25)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 4 (Release date: 2011-03-22)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 11.1 (Release date: 2011-04-12)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 5 (Release date: 2010-06-07)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 4 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 11.1 (Release date: 2011-06-30)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 4.2 (Release date: 2010-11-22)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 2.2 (Release date: 2010-05-20)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 4.2 (Release date: 2010-11-22)
footnote Full support

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See also