Descriptive Lists

A description list usually consists of alternating a description title (abbreviated as DT and a description description (abbreviated as DD). The description generally starts on a new line, because the viewer allows the full line width for the contents of the dt field.

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<DT> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
<DD> NCSA is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NCSA is a one of four member institutions in the National Metacenter for Computational Science and Engineering.
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<DT> Cornell Theory Center
<DD> CTC is located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. CTC is another member of the National Metacenter for Computational Science and Engineering.

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Note that an extra <P> tag has been inserted between items (we said you'd be tempted!). On most browsers, it would look like this:

National Center for Supercomputing Applications: NCSA is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NCSA is a one of four member institutions in the National Metacenter for Computational Science and Engineering.
Cornell Theory Center CTC is located on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. CTC is another member of the National Metacenter for Computational Science and Engineering. Back to Formatting Lists Back to Styles and Text Formatting Up to the Contents page