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HTML <dl> Description List Tag

The

tag stands for Description list or Definition List in HTML. This tag is used to create a definitions list. It is the parent element for
Definition Term
and
Definition Description tags.

The

tag is most commonly used to display the glossaries or definitions of terms. A definition list is similar to other list by it contains two entries such as a term and its description.

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Syntax:

The

tag contains both an opening
tag
and closing
tag. The content is written between these two tags.

<dl>
<dt>Definition Term</dt>
<dd>Definition Description</dd>
</dl>

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HTML
Tag Characteristics:

th, td{ padding: 20px; }

| HTML

tag | It defines the description list. |
| Content categories | Flow content. If the
element’s children include one name-value group, then it is a palpable content. |
| Permitted content | Either Zero or in WHATWG HTML |
| Tag omission | None, both opening and closing tags are mandatory. |
| Permitted parents | Any element that accepts flow content. |
| Implicit ARIA role | No corresponding rolw |
| Permitted ARIA roles | group, list,none,presentation. |
| DOM interface | HTML DListElement |

Sample of the HTML
Tag:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Title of the Document</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h2>Example of HTML <dl> Tag</h2>
      <dl>
      <dt>HTML</dt>
      <dd>Hypertext Markup Language </dd>
      <dd>It is the language for authoring web documents.</dd>
      <dt>CSS</dt>
      <dd>Cascading Style Sheets</dd>
      <dd>It is the language for defining the styles and presentation of an HTML document.</dd>
      <dt> JavaScript</dt>
      <dd>A scripting language built-in to most browsers and designed to be used with web documents.</dd>
      </dl>
   </body>
</html>

Result:

Result

Download Sample File:

HTML-dl-TagDownload

Attributes:

The

tag supports both the global attributes and the event attributes.

Styling Methods for
Tag:

You can use the following CSS properties to style an HTML Description List tag.

Properties to style the visual weight/emphasis/size of the text in
tag:

  • CSS font-style – This CSS property helps to set the font style of the text such as normal, italic, oblique, initial, inherit.
  • CSS font-family – This CSS property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names or generic family names for the selected element.
  • CSS font-size – This CSS property will help to set the size of the font.
  • CSS font-weight – This CSS property used to define whether the font should be bold or thick.
  • CSS text-transform – This CSS property will control the text case and capitalization.
  • CSS test-decoration – This CSS property specifies the decoration added to text such as text-decoration-line , text-decoration-color , text-decoration- style.

Styles to coloring the text in
Tag:

  • CSS color – This CSS property will specify the color of the text content and decorations.
  • CSS background-color – This CSS property helps to set the background color of an element.

Text layout styles for
Tag:

  • CSS text-indent – This CSS property is used to specify the indentation of the first line in a text block.
  • *CSS text-overflow * – This CSS property helps to describe how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signaled to the user.
  • CSS white-space – This CSS property describes how white-space inside an element is handled.
  • CSS word-break – This CSS property decides where the lines should be broken.

Other Properties for
Tag:

  • CSS text-shadow – This CSS property helps to add the shadow to text.
  • CSS text-align-last – This CSS property will set the alignment of the last line of the text.
  • CSS line-height – This CSS property defines the height of a line.
  • CSS letter-spacing – This CSS property helps to decide the spaces between letters/characters in a text.
  • CSS word-spacing – This CSS property specifies the spacing between every word.

Browser Support:

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