HTML/CSS question

Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Tue Jul 1 12:36:21 EDT 2003


pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>>>>>>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, "Ben" == bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> 
> 
>   Ben> Have you tried the DL, DT, and DD tags?  They are for
>   Ben> definitions.  (Definition List, Definition Term, and Definition
>   Ben> Description, respectively.)
> 
> Yes, they all seem to invoke a new line between elements so that you 
> end up with something like this:
> 
>     Term
> 
>     Definition of said term.
> 
> Not what I want (waste too much space, causing the document to be 
> unnecessarilly long).

But once you've got them separated you can use CSS to change the look. 
Something like this might work (?)

dt { float: left; margin: 3em; }
dd { margin: 5em; }


?



Erik




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