16505 2012-03-24 13:02:49 +0000 I would like more clarification on the concept of the term "groups" in regards to the section on definition lists found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element Quite a bit of time is spent defining these groups, for example: "I 2012-09-14 11:18:13 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top a11y P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null hans.hillen mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 66012 0 contributor 2012-03-24 13:02:49 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: I would like more clarification on the concept of the term "groups" in regards to the section on definition lists found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element Quite a bit of time is spent defining these groups, for example: "If a dl element is empty, it contains no groups." "If a dl element contains only dd elements, then it consists of one group with values but no names." How and/or when do these "groups" come into play? Are there any current plans to expose these groups in the DOM, so that dd elements can be accessed from their sibling dt element? What would be even more useful would be exposing these groups as pseudo-elements for CSS rules, allowing each group of dd's in the dt-dd pair to be styled as a unified block. There are clever solutions for this currently, but all of them require either floats, positioning, hard-defined widths, etc. There is currently no compliant way to style a dd element (and its dt/dd children) as a table, which might be possible with pseudo-elements. Posted from: 66.90.144.143 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11 70308 1 contributor 2012-07-18 07:17:44 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17923 as part of operation convergence. 73893 2 robin 2012-09-14 11:18:13 +0000 Matching questions asked in https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17923.