# What's a good way to go up one header / section?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/whats-a-good-way-to-go-up-one-header-section/3979>\
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**Created:** [September 24, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/whats-a-good-way-to-go-up-one-header-section/3979 "2021-09-24T06:54:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crissov](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/crissov/32/1455_2.png) [@Crissov](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Crissov)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/whats-a-good-way-to-go-up-one-header-section/3979/3 "2021-09-25T21:14:11Z")

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I’ve suggested before to (optionally) treat the three different kinds of “thematic breaks” as various kinds of section breaks:

> [@Horizontal rules as (hierarchical) section breaks etc](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/horizontal-rules-as-hierarchical-section-breaks-etc/1241):
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> When Markdown was devised in 2004, there was no HTML5 and hence no \<section\> element type, just \<hr\>. Should a modern implementation (per user-select option or extension) treat one or all “horizontal line” markup as section breaks? Should it introduce new repeated character lines instead, e.g. ====, ####, .... or ''''? # First chapter ---- # Second chapter \<section\> \<h1\>First chapter\</h1\> \</section\>\<section\> \<h1\>Second chapter\</h1\> \</section\> Paged media Slides For slide-based presentations…

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