- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:31:00 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 4/30/07 5:27 PM, "M. Jackson Wilkinson" <jackw-w3c@jounce.net> wrote: > > Andrew Stibbard wrote: >> Marat Tanalin wrote: >>> >>> I suggest to allow using DIV element inside any element (probably except >>> tables). >> >> This seems purely presentational, and I think would be best kept in the >> domain of CSS (using :nth-child or :nth-of-type for styling ranges comes >> to mind). >> > > I'm not so sure that it is purely presentational. In the current DL > model, there is no obvious indication of hierarchy between a DT and a > DD, where there should be. > > I don't think that being able to group using a DIV is necessarily the > right solution, but I've come up with two things that could help after > thinking briefly about it. I figure that many have hashed this out time > and again, but maybe there's something useful here: > > 1. Use LI > > We use list items in the other two forms of lists to group associated > content in one way or another, and allowing for the LI to be used in a > DL context would make a lot of sense and serve this purpose directly. ie: > > <dl> > <li> > <dt>Item 1</dt> > <dd>Item 1's associated content</dd> > </li> > <li> > <dt>Item 2</dt> > <dd>Item 2's associated content</dd> > </li> > </dl> I'd vote for this one. -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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