HTML Basics-list tag, the description list and attributes used in description list

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HTML Basics-list tag, the description list and attributes used in description list-The description list is a list with description of each list item. The description lists are very useful specially while we need to make glossaries which contain a description and a term. Opening tag of description list is

and the closing tag is . Generally a description list contains a number of terms/ description pairs. To define the term

tag is used and

tag to describe the terms. It is list of items with description.

HTML Basic-list tag, the description list and attributes used in description list

HTML Basic-the description list and attributes used in description list

Tags and attributes used in a description list

	Opening and closing tags of the description list
…	To define the heading of the list(Optional ).
…	To define the term(name)
…	Used to describe the terms.
Class	This attribute is used to subclass the tag names. It is a list of standard general markup language name tokens and separated by spaces.
Clear	The clear attribute is common to all block like elements. Examples – clear=all clear=right clear=left clear=”50 pixels” clear=”50 en”
Compact	This attribute is used to set compactness of the list. DL Compact will be the opening tag immediately followed by first term – Example – ….. ……… ….. ……… ?? More ??
ID	This attribute is used as for target hyperlinks. It is standard general markup language identifier and also used for naming elements in related style sheets.
Lang	This is a language attribute and uses two letter language code listed in ISO-639. May be followed by a 2 letter country code and a period.