Capitalization
Title case
With this type of case, all words are capitalized, except for minor words that aren't the first or last word of the title.
Elements using “Title Case”
- Page titles
- Table titles
- Graph titles
- Widget/Card titles
- Chart legends and axis descriptions
- Tabs
- Pills
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Words to capitalize
- Major words: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, and all words of 4 letters or more
- The first word of a title or a subtitle
- The first word after a colon or em dash in a heading
- The second part of hyphenated major words
- The second part of phrasal verbs: Sign Up
- Team names, including the word “team”
Words NOT to capitalize
- Articles (“the”, “an”, “a”)
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions (and, or, but)
- “To” in an infinitive
- “Report” and “tool” if they aren't part of the title
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Sign up for Our Newsletter Award-winning Platform Contact Support team Select A Custom Plan Get Started With Semrush Organic Positions Report | Sign Up for Our Newsletter Award-Winning Platform Contact Support Team Select a Custom Plan Get Started with Semrush Organic Positions report |
Sentence case
With this type of case, most words in a titles or headings are in lowercase. You should capitalize only:
- The first word of the title, heading, or subtitle
- Proper nouns
Elements using “Sentence case”
- Modal window titles
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- Notice titles
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- Buttons
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- Field labels
- Checkboxes
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- Menus
- Dropdown items
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- Tags
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- Links
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Contact Us | Contact us |
- Bulleted and numbered lists
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- Filter names (including filters in the report headers)
- Company business units (Marketing department, R&D unit)







