Definition lists (<dl>, <dt>, <dd>)

Definition lists are commonly used to help define or explain listed items.

The listed item is made of two parts, definition term <dt> and definition description <dd>.

Syntax:

<dl><dt></dt><dd></dd></dl>

Attributes:

id, class (document-wide identifiers)
lang (language information), dir (text direction)
title (element title)
style (inline style information)
onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events)

Example

HTML definition list elements:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Brenko.web HTML tutorial</title>
<style type="text/css">
dt {
font-weight:bold;
}
dd {
background-color:#ddd;
}
</style> 
</head>

<body>
<dl>
<dt>HTML</dt><dd>HyperText Markup Language</dd>
<dt>CSS</dt><dd>Cascading Style Sheets</dd>
<dt>DOM</dt><dd>Document Object Model</dd>
</dl>
</body>

</html>

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Definition lists (<dl>, <dt>, <dd>)

Syntax:

Attributes:

Example

HTML definition list elements:

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