A dialogue makes a lot more sense than a list of items which is what Jens-Uwe is suggesting. I don't believe the usage of a definition list for a dialogue suggests that DL and DD can be used 'in all manner of creative ways.' Its primary purpose is to identify a term and its definition. It works well in a dialogue in that it identifies the speaker, then offsets what the person has said - you could see this as defining the person by his speech. It's when we start to get overly creative that we break the rules of the language and end up with markup which is no longer semantic, but gibberish - it may render the way we want it to, but it has lost its original intended meaning.
Jens-Uwe's example could even be put into a P element if he wants it displayed inline as he put in his first post: Posted in: Category 1, Category 2 <p>Posted in: Category 1, Category 2</p> I would suggest a low-level heading (depending on the heading hierarchy of the site) or simply a paragraph (depending on the context of the list within the page) for 'posted in' followed by an unordered list if he wants it to display as a bulleted list, or he can remove the bullets with his stylesheet if he doesn't want them, but this still remains a list of categories in which things are posted not a definition of 'posted in': Posted in: - Category 1 - Category 2 <h5>Posted in:</h5> <ul> <li>Category 1</li> <li>Category 2</li> </ul> The context will really determine what is best, but either of those options make more sense than a definition list. Jason On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13 Jun 2008, at 04:05, Jason Ray wrote: > > Definition lists are for definitions, which this is not. >> > > Not necessarily so. The W3C gives character dialogue as an example usage of > a DL http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html#h-10.3 which seems to > encourage finding less literal uses for it -- and plenty of designers use > the tag to semantically group collections of semantically-connected text > chunks/images etc in all manner of creative ways. > > -- > Rick Lecoat > www.sharkattack.co.uk > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
