Posted by John Hosking on 04/27/07 02:20

Jon Slaughter wrote:
> I am trying to use two lists and the only behavior that I want just html is
> to nest two ul's but use a <dd> tag in the list.

Of course you neither say why you want that nor provide a URL.

>
> It does work but I'm not sure if <dd> is suppose to work with a ul?

Typical.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/lists.html

>
> I probably can mess with css

Likewise typical.

> to indent the text that <dd> is doing automaticaly or use
> a ul with a dl nested inside but it seems much cleaner using <dd>

<q>"We discourage authors from using lists purely as a means of
indenting text. This is a stylistic issue and is properly handled by
style sheets."</q>

which is what we have to presume you're trying to do, since you haven't
indicated otherwise. What's "cleaner" about it? Are you planning to use
<dl> or <dt>, or are you just going to define things without saying what
you're defining?

--
John

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