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Bug 17728 - There should be a way to group related dt/dd elements. For example, allowing div tags to be nested in a dl would help tremendously with styling the dt/dd child elements.
Summary: There should be a way to group related dt/dd elements. For example, allowing ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-10 02:12 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-26 05:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-10 02:12:52 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-dl-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-dl-element

Comment:
There should be a way to group related dt/dd elements. For example, allowing
div tags to be nested in a dl would help tremendously with styling the dt/dd
child elements.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:57:57 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18287 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-26 05:51:30 UTC 
If there's a limitation with the styling, we should fix CSS. It affects more than just <dl>.