<br><div class="gmail_quote">Jennifer Hodgdon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yahgrp@poplarware.com">yahgrp@poplarware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How come the style for definition lists in the Codex is bold for both the item and the definition? </blockquote><div> </div><div>[...]<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That makes certain pages look very odd. For instance:<br>
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_Submission_and_Promotion" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_Submission_and_Promotion</a><br>
The entire bottom section is bold, which makes it difficult to read, and makes it look like it's more important than the rest of the page, which it isn't.</blockquote><div><br>Good point. With the examples on that page though, I'd be tempted not to use definition lists at all. Whilst they seem to loosely resemble terms (title of idea followed by description of idea), it's pretty loose, and I'd prefer to mark them up as simple headings and paragraphs (which still implies a semantic association). The specs are a bit vague, and so it's down to interpretation, but I tend to stick to using <dl>s only for dictionary/glossary style descriptions of simple terms, short phrases.<br>
<br>The HTML5 spec (which is a bit more verbose on the semantics of phrase elements) suggests you can use it for "terms and definitions, metadata topics
and values, or any other groups of name-value data", but I'm not sure the example fits any of these...<br><br>Should still change the CSS though. :)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Frankie<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Frankie Roberto<br>
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