Yesterday a friend pointed me at Burger Fuel’s website. I can’t go into why, but anyway I idly poked around, as you do, and noticed something wonderful on this page: correct use of the DL, DT and DD tags.

I had forgotten all about these old friends, which together make up the definition list flavour of HTML lists.

Definition List

Definition lists, created using the DL element, generally consist of a series of term/definition pairs.

They are so obscure that the editor I use to compose these posts doesn’t even have buttons for them. I am just itching now for something to come my way that will justify my using DL and friends once more. Somehow they take me back to the early days when Mosaic was all there was and we hadn’t realised that presentational markup would lead to BLINK , MARQUEE and other atrocities.