- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:42:06 +0100
Matthew Thomas wrote: > Yes, people have lots of fun trying to find the correct markup for this > situation. <http://simplebits.com/notebook/2004/04/20/sq.html> > > The general problem is that people want to number (or, less commonly, > bullet) series of items that are already in multi-element structures, > such that <ol>/<ul> cannot be used. Here, if numbering were not > required, you would arguably be using <dl> (since each section is a full > definition of the instruction given in its first line), but <dt>s can't > be numbered automatically solely with HTML. The same applies to a formal > dictionary where definitions <dd> for each term should be numbered. And > the same applies to a table where each row <tr> should be numbered. So DL is the biggest problem here, I guess. Since DT can occure multiple times and DD as well. Perhaps we should introduce DI, like XHTML 2.0 to take away this problem and a lot of other problems with regard to styling DL elements? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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