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Re: One list item in a list

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Sep 19, 2014 12:20PM

Rakesh wrote:

> I was so far of the thought that a HTML list should contain more than
> 2 list items.

My wife and I share a shopping list and I pick up the groceries on the
way home from work. It currently has one item - lettuce. Yet it's
still a shopping list.

I admit it is a bit atypical for a list to only have one item - and
there is overhead that should be considered for developers, sighted
users, and screen reader users when encountering a list with one item
(and for me when stopping at the grocer for only lettuce) - but
there's nothing that prohibits this.

> Does definition
> list holds good if I use it for FAQs or instances where I have a list
> of items having a heading as <dt> and a paragraph of content under it
> as <dd>.

In HTML5, <dl> has been (re)defined as being for name/value pairs.
This more closely matches the reality of its usage on the web. So yes,
you can use <dl> to mark up FAQs or other types of name/value pairings
even if they are not strict definitions.

Jared