Re: Utility of description lists

[George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com>]

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It is not quite true that it's just a way of formatting, there is a
semantic element to it as well where someone parsing your document
programmatically can now know that what you have is a list of terms paired
with their descriptions. In fact, when exporting to html you get a
description list
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dl> which is one
of the most underused-yet-everyone-should-use-it-more html elements.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:37 AM William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 17 June 2022, Cletip Cletip wrote:
>
> > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ?
>
> When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe!  That's all.  It's
> just
> a way of formatting a list of things where there's a term (a word, a name,
> a
> title) that has some descriptive text.  Sometimes I use them when there's
> an
> obvious term/description pairing, and sometimes when I have a text-heavy
> list of
> things and I want to have a brief summary of each to make it easier to
> read.
>
>
> Bill
>
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