The date in design - so it's just better for it to go first in code
too. So my problem was that i just cant use h3-h2 - considering its
not logically correct.
As for your structure
<ul class="news-articles">
<li>
<div class="date">09-12-2006</div>
<h2>Article title</h2>
<p>Excerpt here....</p>
<a href="full-article">Read the whole thing</a>
</li>
</ul>
May be then this would be the best one:
<small>09-12-2006</small>
<h2>Article title</h2>
<p>Excerpt here....</p>
On 12/9/06, Rob O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thats an interesting point. I always thought that any given <dt> or
> <dd> should hold one piece of information only. If nesting stuff
> inside them like that is completely legit that certainly opens up a
> lot of possibilities.
>
> Consider this:
>
> <dl>
> <dt><img src="house_photo.jpg" /></dt>
> <dt>123 Property Address</dt>
> <dd>3 Bedrooms | 1.5 Baths</dd>
> <dd>$150,000</dd>
> <dd>View Link</dd>
> </dl>
>
> This is how I've been marking up property lists (single list unit
> shown), which is where my previous example was coming from. Your
> example seems to capture the information relationship pretty well
> though....hmmmm
>
> Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:
>
>> I'm curious, Joseph, wouldn't that be better like this?
>>
>> <h2>Our News</h2>
>> <dl>
>> <dt>2006-12-09</dt>
>> <dd>
>> <h3>News Headline</h3>
>> <p>Teaser statement for the article.</p>
>> <p>Link to Full Story</p>
>> </dd>
>> </dl>
>>
>> Assuming of course this would be valid as it would be with any other
>> kind of list (I didn't check).
>>
>> Respectfully,
>> Mike Cherim
>> http://green-beast.com/
>>
>>
Hi,
On the topic of using definition lists in this sense I know some people
would argue that the examples above aren't semantically accurate. I have
seen <dl>s used as a way of organising Name-Value pairs which I've
recently implemented on some product detail screens but is an article's
*date* defined by its *excerpt*? Wouldn't an ordered list be better? (or
unordered, I'm not that fussy =P) eg.
<ul class="news-articles">
<li>
<div class="date">09-12-2006</div>
<h2>Article title</h2>
<p>Excerpt here....</p>
<a href="full-article">Read the whole thing</a>
</li>
</ul>
Also, why does the date need to come first? And does it really need to
be a heading? I'm actually asking because I've thought about it but
never really drawn any solid conclusions.
Just some thoughts,
Rob O
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