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A description list (a.k.a. association list or definition list) consists of name–value groups, [21] and was known as a definition list prior to HTML5. [22] Description lists are intended for groups of "terms and definitions, metadata topics and values, questions and answers, or any other groups of name–value data". [23]
Compact description list}} styles a description list so that terms and matching descriptions are shown on the same line. This saves vertical space and can improve readability when the descriptions are extremely brief, while maintaining the semantic HTML structure. Currently, this template only supports a single parameter, |wrap=.
Bulleted description list}} styles a description list so that terms and matching descriptions are shown as a bulleted list. Currently, this template only supports a single parameter, |wrap=. Its value must be the complete wikitext for the description list, which may be created using wikitext syntax, HTML tags, or the {} family of templates. Do ...
There are three types of lists: unordered lists, ordered lists, and description lists (a.k.a. definition lists or association lists).In the following sections, various list types are used for different examples, but other list types will generally give corresponding results.
The template {{}} (a.k.a. {{glossary start}} or {{glossary begin}}) is used with {{glossary end}} to explicitly bracket a glossary or glossary-like description list (also called a definition list or association list), especially in a template-structured glossary, although such lists can be used more generally.
A description list contains groups of "... terms and definitions, metadata topics and values, questions and answers, or any other groups of name-value data." [2] [3] On Wikipedia, the most common use of a description list is for a glossary, where it is preferable to other styles. Wikipedia has special markup for description lists:
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags", [5] first mentioned on the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991. [6] [7] It describes 18 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML.
What this template does on the technical level is wrap the term in the <dfn>...</dfn> HTML element to semantically mark the term as the defining instance on the page of the defined term, and puts this marked-up content inside a <dt>...</dt> term element of a <dl>...</dl> description list (a.k.a. definition list, association list; the list is ...