I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
On The (2021)
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Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#22The final example of the DnD statt sheet makes me think whether it's legal to nest s? I.e. can we do Actions ...
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-dd-element
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#23Wait what? has been in HTML since.. the first draft in 1993!
I like DL's but they can be challenging to style. This article is using a lot of fixed pixel widths which would break on really small screens or larger data.
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#24I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
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I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markupsRe: On The <dl> (2021)
#25I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
You're right, but forcing tables to cosplay as DLs was far from the worst way that tables were abused.
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#26The GOV.UK Design System summary list component is a description list https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/summary-list... And... it also uses the wrapper div for styling
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#27Why is it preferred over for laying out columns via a the character attributes at the bottom of TFA?
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#28I love DL. I think tables, at least in the past, were misused as DLs even more in the past and the inconvenience of the table markup is even worse than a bunch of divs.
It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags: first second what ever I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups
Re: On The <dl> (2021)
#29https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
https://info.cern.ch/ (A landing page of sorts to give context and orientation about the actual first website.)