[thelist] Paragraphs within lists

martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com
Thu Nov 16 08:34:30 CST 2000


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hmm.

That's annoying, as the paragraphs within each definition are real, structural
paragraphs,
not just presentational ones. I'm trying to get the clients to move in the
structural HTML
direction.

If you can have sub-lists within list items, why not other block level tags?

Martin



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i use <br> tags... i don't like to nest block-level elements of that
sort... as far as i see it, a <dl> is analagous to a <p>, it just
implies different content... as such, i wouldn't nest any <p>s...

so:

<dl>
 <dt>foo</dt>
 <dd>bar<br>foobar<br>foo<br>bar</dd>
</dl>

would be mine...

> From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
>
> What I'm trying to do is put together a definition list - pretty standard
stuff:
> it's a jargon- buster.
>
> However, some of the definitions have paragraph breaks within them.
>
> How would this be correctly coded & nested? Would it be:
> <dl>
>   <dt>
>        foo
>   </dt>
>    <dd>
>        <p>bar bar bar</p>
>        <p>plig plig plig</p>
>    </dd>
> </dl>




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