DD definition of term HTML 2.0

Purpose

definition of term

Description

This element encloses the explanation of a term (defined by DT) in a definition list (DL).

Start tag

Required <DD>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
SDAFORM	CDATA	#FIXED "LItem"	one to one mapping; in support of transformation to the International Committee for Accessible Document Design DTD for usable access to structured information by print-impaired individuals

( #PCDATA | A | IMG | BR | EM | STRONG | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | TT | B | I #PCDATA | A | IMG | BR | P | UL | OL | DIR | MENU | DL | PRE | BLOCKQUOTE | FORM | ISINDEX )*

End tag

Optional </DD>

Referenced in

Example

Source	Appearance
<DL> <DT>SGML <DD>Standard Generalized Markup Language <DT>HTML <DD>Hypertext Markup Language <DT>XHTML <DD>Extensible HyperText Markup Language </DL>	SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language HTML Hypertext Markup Language XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language