Apologies - I hit send too soon and the example was wrong. I meant
that you could end up with this:
<dl>
<dt>CAMELFORD OFFICE:</dt>
<dd><address>20 Market Place<br />
Camelford<br />
Cornwall<br />
PL32 9PD</address></dd>
<dd>TEL <address>01840 212938</address></dd>
<dd>FAX <address>01840 213596</address></dd>
</dl>
I might also be inclined to put semantic class names on each of those
addresses (such as "street-address", "telephone", "fax". In the
future, this would allow you to use CSS to generate the "Tel" and
"Fax" prefixes for you, or insert an appropriate icon graphic etc.
Ben
On 5/23/05, Ben Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nothing 'wrong' with that I don't think. I think that the street
> address should probably only be contained within a single <dd>, though
> (since it is a single entity). Lines could be broken with <br /> as
> appropraite.
>
> I think it would then be appropraite to wrap the inner text of each
> <dd> with an <address> too, so you have:
>
> <dl>
> <dt>CAMELFORD OFFICE:</dt>
> <dd>20 Market Place<br />
> <dd>Camelford<br />
> <dd>Cornwall</dd>
> <dd>PL32 9PD</dd>
> <dd>TEL 01840 212938</dd>
> <dd>FAX 01840 213596</dd>
> </dl>
>
>
>
> The WHATWG Web Apps draft has an expanded definition for <address>
> which seems to be semantically identical to the existing HTML4 spec,
> but provides a more verbose explaination:
> http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-address
>
> On 5/23/05, designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, is this example 'wrong' ?
> >
> > <dl>
> > <dt>CAMELFORD OFFICE:</dt>
> > <dd>20 Market Place</dd>
> > <dd>Camelford</dd>
> > <dd>Cornwall</dd>
> > <dd>PL32 9PD</dd>
> > <dd>TEL 01840 212938</dd>
> > <dd>FAX 01840 213596</dd>
> > </dl>
> >
> > It's what I generally use for the contact address of whatever business site
> > I'm producing. It has the advantage of allowing the <dt> which, with
> > appropriate CSS formatiing, makes for a nice display of the information.
> >
> > (Please tell me it's OK :-)
> >
> > Bob McClelland,
> > Cornwall (U.K.)
> > www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
> >
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