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Re: Forms as lists

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Sep 2, 2010 8:12AM

This has been an interesting discussion. I'm in the process of completely
redesigning the cars.com mobile website, which is primarily just a bunch of
forms, and I've been marking the elements up in lists. After reading this, I
think I'll reconsider doing so.

Let's take this one step further: should a group of links (such as "home",
"about", and "contact") be grouped in an unordered list?

Additionally, I've been grouping the result of forms in definition lists,
like so:

<dl>
<dt>Name:</dt>
<dd>Dean</dd>
<dt>Email:</dt>
<dd> <EMAIL REMOVED> </dd>
<dl>

Is this also completely unnecessary? Would it be better to put each <dt> and
<dd> in an unordered list item?

Dean Hamack