Comments on: Definition lists – misused or misunderstood?

By: Juan dela Cruz

Juan dela Cruz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:15:31 +0000

Very helpful post…

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By: Gabriele Romanato

Gabriele Romanato — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:04:39 +0000

Hi Russ!
I’ve just made this:

http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/06/image-gallery-with-definition-list-and.html

This is something not without some semantic implications. bye

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komplette "DL" als link - XHTMLforum — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:57:34 +0000

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By: Bessie Davidson

Bessie Davidson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:01:15 +0000

Hi. You said “Google and other search engines will not index definition list content in the same way that they do for heading-based content”. Can you back that up? I haven’t been able to confirm that. What exactly does “not in the same way” mean? (I guess it must mean something different from simply “not”).

By: Ada

Ada — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:52:55 +0000

Very good article, useful and precise.

A big thanks.

Ada

By: Matthew Wilcoxosn

Matthew Wilcoxosn — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:33:54 +0000

Thanks, just what I was looking for. Particularly table look style. (Surprising to find an article still relevant six years later!)

One thing though, list example 8 doesn’t show multiple dd’s and looks the same as number 4 (although different css)

By: Russ

Russ — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:22:31 +0000

@John Snow: you are correct. Instead of using a class, I could have used an adjacent sibling selector.

However, this will not work for earlier versions of IE including 5 and 6.

(IE6 is more prevalent that some people think – such as Government and large organisations that have locked staff down to IE6).

Also, this article was written in 2004 when there was no IE7, let alone IE8, so using adjacent sibling selectors at that time, though desirable, was hardly practical if you wanted cross-browser support.

Thanks
Russ