Re: [WSG] Captioning images - to DL or not to DL

[Sigurd Magnusson]

Sure
I've never heard myself of using DL/DT/DD for this sort of thing, although 
instinctively it seems quite an appropriate use.

My question relates to what sort of problems you have encountered with 
widths; I would have thought the following would pose no problems:

<dl class="captionedimage">
<dt><img src="xyz.jpg" width="100" height="150" alt="Australian Landmark" 
/></dt>
<dd>Here is wonderful example of a Australian Landmark</dd>
</dl>

You would simply be meddling with padding, margins and borders on the 
elements; the width remains attached to the image itself, as this is 
appropriate even with XHTML 1.1.

I presume you know you can easily float the dl left or right, rather than 
use "align=right" on the <img /> element.

Siggy
I was wondering what the best solution was for captioning images where
you
have a number of differently sized images on a page.
Is using a definition list the best way to do this and the most
semantically correct?  Are there better ways?
The biggest problem I have found is having to set the width of the dl
when
all the images are of a different size.
Thanks
Helen 
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