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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Oct 24, 2018 5:42AM

>
> The w3 HTML5 spec seems to allow a div to be the immediate child of a dl,
> then a dd or dt to be a child of that div.


"Either:Zero or more groups each consisting of one or more dt
<https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-dt> elements
followed by one or more dd
<https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-dd>elements,
optionally intermixed with script-supporting elements
<https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#script-supporting-elements-2>.
Or: One or more div
<https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#elementdef-div> elements,
optionally intermixed with script-supporting elements."

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-dl-element

However, Deque's Attest Chrome browser extension calls out an error: "<dl>
elements must only directly contain properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups,
<script> or <template> elements"

These seem to contradict one another. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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*Brian Lovely*
Digital Accessibility
804.389.1064

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