On May 25, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Andrew Krespanis wrote:
On 5/24/05, Ben Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<dl class="postalAddress">
<dt>Canada</dt>
<dd class="company">In The Game, Inc.</dd>
<dd class="division">Customer Service</dd>
<dd class="street1">135 West Beaver Creek Road Box #604</dd>
<dd class="city">Richmond Hill</dd>
<dd class="state">ON</dd>
<dd class="postalCode">L4B 1C0</dd>
</dl>
<picky type="semantics">
I think that one would have to qualify as improper use of a <dl>.
The method I use to decide on the appropriate use of <dl> is to say
'equals' in between the <dt> and each <dd>.
...
</picky>
Agreed that it's imperfect, and your comment is not terribly picky --
this is an ambiguous topic at best. A) I was merely supporting
another's suggestion of using such markup, and b) I haven't ventured
much into this space and haven't come up with something semantically
closer to what I want that allows me to style it the way the designer
and client want.
I think the stronger way to determine if a definition list should be
applied is: in your group of related elements, are they all equal
players that relate in the same way to a single item or term?
You choose a narrow definition of "definition" so that your "relate in
the same way" is always "equals." I have chosen to be a bit more broad,
and have used <dl>s to create breadcrumbs and other subnav blocks,
where each element in the list relates to a title for the list that I
often hide. I think in the future I may do something more akin to this:
<div class="subnav">
<h2>subnav stuff</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="here.html">Here</a></li>
<li><a href="there.html">There</a></li>
<li><a href="somewhere.html">Somewhere Else</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
...which seems more correct, though less novel than the dl did when I
first started using it.
Thanks, Andrew.
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