What's the tag for?

Question

Is there any logical reason for using the

,

and

tags instead of nested, CSS-styled

and
tags? Or are they just an outdated g

Answer 1

From the W3C documentation:

Definition lists vary only slightly from other types of lists in that list items consist of two parts: a term and a description. The term is given by the DT element and is restricted to inline content. The description is given with a DD element that contains block-level content.

There are a couple of markup examples on the W3C page.