Re: what is dt?

Leif Halvard Silli On 09-09-19 19.24:

> Lars Gunther On 09-09-19 17.41:
> 
>> 2009-09-18 21:55, Leif Halvard Silli skrev:
>>> I must say that <dl figure > is a smaller jump than <p caption >.
>> I would say the opposite. As stated: In a normal dl the ORDER between dt 
>> and dd is important. In figure they are supposed not to be.
>>
>> Confusing!



> So, we could define <dl figure>/<figure> so that <dt> always has 
> to come first - like in a normal dl.
> 
> I hear that Lachlan say that that would be counter intuitive, as 
> image captions will usually come after image. But, well, we have 
> the CSS caption-side option. And we have the TABLE element, were 
> the caption has to come first. And it can also be a simplification 
> for authors that there is one place for it to occur - instead of 
> them having to choose "were to I place the caption in my code today"?
> 
> The drawback to this is really mostly the lacking IE6/IE7 support 
> for display:table-caption  ...  But as you have said: we should 
> look to the future. And I there are workarounds, such as positioning.


Demo: http://målform.no/html5/dl-as-figure-element
-- 
leif halvard silli