Comments on: How To Use DL, DT And DD HTML Tags To List Data vs Table List Data

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:35:07 +0000

Using tables in 2010 for anything other than very complex tabular data (which is what tables were originally meant for anyway) is like keeping a leisure suit from the 70's on the basis that it still fits you. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Good luck - maybe we'll see you on page 499 of 500. :-)

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:44:12 +0000

ahh, looks like the html is encoded into the post, d'oh!

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:43:32 +0000

Nice article, thought I'd just add my two cents to help the dd forms a little more obvious semantically.

Field 1:

I do still use table in my designs, although quite sparingly, they do have their uses still, particularly regarding backwards compatability.

By: startego

startego — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:49:50 +0000

Use the th-Element for Head-Elements in the table and you will have the same. A table ist better to handle as the dt and dd, if you want to define absolute widths for it. I used at the Beginning the dt and dd-Elemnts by my Projekt and after many annoyed days i started to use tables. They are much better to handle and have saved me a lot of time.

just my opinion.

By: diseño web

diseño web — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:09:22 +0000

The one that continues using tables is because it does not dominate or does not know CSS. To design in CSS is far better, by the subject of order, maintenance, accessibility, navigability and thousand reasons more.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:35:00 +0000

What can one do, if a is somewhat longer and goes over two lines? In your css the float breaks the whole layout. Is there a solutions using these tags?

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By: San

San — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:19:53 +0000

How to make third column using this technique.

By: J. Hoogstrate

J. Hoogstrate — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:29:22 +0000

Thanks for the information. That would really help clear a lot of doubts for a whole lot of people. It is always better to use more efficient code for better efficiency. Looking at it differently, this could also save the environment as better efficiency means more productivity using lesser resources. Now that is green coding. Our green news features many ways to use computers to save the environment.

By: Cristian

Cristian — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:57 +0000

There are problems with dt, dd.

In case the height of the content within dt is higher than of the content within dd, the dd is not resizing automatically to have the same height... This leads to lot of problems...