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Re: Using CSS to hide a portion of the link text

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Aug 3, 2009 7:30AM

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> Also, the W3C example uses dl/dd. Isn't that a poor use of the field,
> since you're not giving a definition?
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> Dan Conley

This is definitely a hotly debated topic. Some would say that definition
lists should only be used for definitions, while others feel that definition
lists offer a great way to mark up anything that can (and should) be
represented as key:value pairs. I'm on the fence, personally. I'd rather not
use them for anything but definition lists, but see the logic in attempting
to put some semantic structure to such content.

Karl