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Paul Novitski escribió:
> At 03:33 PM 3/4/2006, luis jure wrote:
>   
>> i want to format definition lists in a way that the definition description
>> goes in the same line than the definition term, like this:
>>
>> dt term1 here   dd text goes here to the end of the line blah blah blah
>> and goes on here at the beginning of the next line if long enough
>>
>> dt term2 here   dd text 2 goes here etc.
>>
>> i tried different values of the 'display' property, and also with 'float'.
>> but i can't get exactly what i want, that seems to me should be trivial.
>>     
>
>
> I can see two ways to do this:
>
> 1) float the DT left and let the DD wrap around it:
>
> dl
> {
>          width: Xem;
> }
> dt
> {
>          display: block;
>          float: left;
>          width: Yem;
> }
> dd
> {
>          display: inline;
> }
>
> ...where X is the width of the entire text area and Y is the width of the DT.
>
>
> 2) declare them both inline:
>
> dt,
> dd
> {
>          display: inline;
> }
>
> DTs are by default inline and DDs are by default block, but it never 
> hurts to declare your intentions explicitly in order to bring all 
> browsers into line.  A block element will normally begin a new row of 
> content, while inline elements will follow one another on the same row.
>
> In your examples you've got two or three ems of blank space between 
> DT and DD.  If this is intentional you could use padding or margin to 
> force that in the presentation as well
>
> Paul  
>
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