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Re: FW: CSS and 508 Challenge

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From: Langum, Michael J
Date: Aug 24, 2010 1:33PM

Jared,

Your suggestion re: using <br> tags would be great IF we didn't also have a requirement to alter the default <dl> layout, -- using CSS float attributes to lay each <dt> and <dd> next to each other horizontally. This whole page began life as a <table> with columns for "form number," "form name," etc.

I'm assuming that I'll have to give up the <dl> structure, and go to a <ul> with floating <div>s within each <li> that correspond to the original <dt> and <dd> tags. I've heard of CSS "display:table" (and similar) attributes.

Does anyone have an opinion on that approach?
-- Mike