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Bug 18287 - 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: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:57 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-17 18:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:57:54 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17728 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-07-10 02:12:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-07-10 02:12:52 +0000 
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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.

Posted from: 59.125.17.82
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11
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Comment 1 Edward O'Connor 2012-08-23 20:56:23 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No change.
Rationale: If there's a limitation with the styling, we should fix CSS.
It affects more than just <dl>.
Comment 2 Edward O'Connor 2012-09-24 16:57:36 UTC 
*** Bug 18988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***