HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<dd>
Function
Defines a definition list term
class, dir, id, lang, onClick, onDblClick,
onKeyDown, onKeyPress, onKeyUp,
onMouseDown, onMouseMove, onMouseOut,
onMouseOver, onMouseUp, style, title
Attributes
End tag
</dd>
; may be omitted in HTML
Contains
flow
Used in
dl_content
The content that follows the
<dd>
tag may be any HTML or XHTML con-
struct, including other lists, block text, and multimedia elements. Al-
though treating it otherwise identically as conventional content, browsers
typically indent definition list (
<dd>
) definitions. Because the start of an-
other term and definition (
<dt>
) or the required end tag of the definition
(
</dl>
) unambiguously terminates the preceding definition, the
</dd>
end
tag is not needed, and its absence makes your source text more read-
able. However, once again, XHTML insists that the end tag appear in your
documents, so you may as well get used to adding
</dd>
to your docu-
ments.
