Bert Doorn wrote:
To my thinking, if there's a collection (list) of articles, each with a "caption" or "title" and a summary paragraph, using a (definition) list makes sense, as it allows you to group "related" items (a bunch of news items).
Well visually they're the same. So we are just talking about tags. What you say as "makes sense" is not expressed in the W3C standards, and the W3C haven't (to my knowledge) corrected anyone.
Which is not to say that you're wrong, but that it's ambiguous, so there's no reasoned choice to be made here.
The XHTML 1.0 spec allows paragraphs after headings without a container element, with an implied association, just like html 1.0.
A list is allows paragraphs and headings within it,
just like div tags, and tables.
So many ways of grouping related items are correct, and without further information on the differences we're just guessing. By all means though if one looks better or suits a personal preference then just use it, but it's not like we can draw any best practices from this.
.Matthew Crucikshank http://holloway.co.nz/
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