Definition List

A small glossary builds term and definition pairs using dl, dt, and dd elements.

Program

Use a definition list when each item is a term-description pair rather than a bullet or numbered sequence.

definition_list.html

<dl>
  <dt>HTML</dt>
  <dd>Markup language for web documents.</dd>
  <dt>CSS</dt>
  <dd>Style language for those documents.</dd>
  <dt>DOM</dt>
  <dd>Tree built from parsed markup.</dd>
</dl>

dt A dt element names a term in a definition list.

dd A dd element gives the corresponding description.