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Re: Navigation lists and headers - best practise?

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Aug 27, 2007 4:00PM

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Austin, Darrel wrote:

> Whoa...this thread is going on over a year now.

And it's really not leading anywhere, is it?

> I'm being swayed by the H2 arguments, yet I still like the semantics of
> using a DL list.

A definition list doesn't magically become semantically appropriate just
because people like its semantics. If you really love it, leave it for its
_defined_ use as a list of _terms_ and their definitions.

> <dt>
> <h2>Section Navigation Title</h2>
> </dt>

Here we go again. It's not just semantically wrong. It's even
syntactically wrong, since dt elements allows inline content only (not
surprisingly, since terms are words, not blocks).

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/