Matt and Heerema: Web Design

Definition List

One important aspect of coding with Web standards is semantically correct markup (that is, choosing the proper HTML tag for the TEXT you are MARKing UP. (HTML = hyper TEXT MARKUP language). An analogy can be drawn between using semantically correct markup, and using proper grammar. I think a more apt analogy is comparing proper markup to using English. Example: “Cat brown the sits leaf pile on of a”, is definitely not correct if you are trying to say “The brown cat sits on a pile of leaves.” However, this is the way many Web designers’ HTML looks…

There was a great article on an underused, but very useful little tag known as the definition list. Check it out.

Definition Lists.

Also take a look at the end of the article for some cool things you can do with definition lists via CSS.

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