On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Ingo Chao wrote:

> 2009/11/19 Jeff Zeitlin <jzeit...@cloud9.net>:
>> ...
>>
>> SECTION NAME (DT) IN BOLD   Section description
>>    (DD), which may run to multiple lines of
>>    text, or have DLs in the DD (and those DLs
>>    should be formatted the same way)
>>
> two ideas:
> this looks like a run-in box to me
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#run-in
> browser support is ... to be tested. Safari and Opera?

Opera, IE 8 with some issues, Safari with quite a bit of issues. Not  
Firefox (maybe Fx 3.7, if spec issues are settled).

> Since you need some nesting of a DL inside of the DD, making DD and DT
> display:inline and DL inline-block to simulate a run-in would maybe
> end in some browser issues, too.

That would only work if you have only one dt/dd pair :-)

Floating the <dt> is a cross browser option.
testcase:
http://dev.l-c-n.com/cssd/tx-cssD20091119.html

Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/





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