Looks like
it's in the HTML 3.0 draft:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/deflists.html
You're right - no mention of it in 4.01, although both IE and FF
support it. I wonder why they got rid of it.
-Nate
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Joseph Lindsay wrote:
Hi Ted, can you give me the URL where you found that? As far as I can
tell from the HTML 4.01 DTD (i'm happy to me corrected) the <dl>
element must contain 1 or mor <dt> or<dd> elements, and can't contain
any other elements (although the <dt> can have inline elements and
<dd> can have block and inline elements). I can't find any reference
to a <lh> element in the current specs.
On 7/7/05, Drake, Ted C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just when I thought I couldn't love the definition list any more, I looked
at the w3.org definition of the definition list and came across this:
The opening list tag must be <DL>. It is followed by an optional list header
(<LH>caption</LH>) and then by term names (<DT>) and definitions (<DD>). For
example:
<DL>
<LH>List Header</LH>
<DT>Term 1<dd>This is the definition of the first term.
<DT>Term 2<dd>This is the definition of the second term.
</DL>
which could be rendered as:
List Header
Term 1
This is the definition of the first term.
Term 2
This is the definition of the second term.
Holey headers, batman! We can put a list header on our definition list? How
cool is that?!?
Has anyone seen a site that uses this?
Andy Clarke uses the definition lists in forms,
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/e-commerce_definition_lists.html
. This would be a great way to markup a set of radio buttons and use the
header to define the group of buttons.
One of these days, I'm just gonna have to sit down and read the entire
specs.
Ted
www.tdrake.net
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