Suggestion: Change <div> in <dl> content rules for styling purposes

[mincerafter42]

Currently, I think the rules for <div>s in <dl>s are not sufficient for all styling purposes. Rationale for accommodating styling here is in #1937.

Sorry if my use case is too specific; I can't think of a way to generalize it: I am using CSS flexboxes to style a dl such that the information is styled as a row, with some columns containing only one group of dts followed by dds, and some columns containing multiple groups of dts followed by dds. This is for purely visual purposes and does not reflect any semantic separation between the terms; they are all part of the same list.

Possible solutions:

• Allow multiple groups of dts followed by dds in divs in dls:

  <dl>
   <div>
    <dt>term</dt>
    <dd>description</dd>
    <dt>term 2</dt>
    <dd>description 2</dd>
   </div>
   <div>
    <dt>term 3</dt>
    <dd>description 3</dd>
   </div>
   </dl>

• Allow nesting of divs in dls:

  <dl>
   <div>
    <div>
     <dt>term</dt>
     <dd>description</dd>
    </div>
    <div>
     <dt>term 2</dt>
     <dd>description 2</dd>
    </div>
   </div>
   <div>
    <dt>term 3</dt>
    <dd>description 3</dd>
   </div>
  </dl>

[domenic]

This makes sense to me. I'd love @zcorpan's perspective.

[zcorpan]

I'm not sure about further "relaxing" the content model for dl to support styling needs. #1937 had pushback from a WYSIWYG editor developer, and this change seems like it would make it worse again.

#1937 (comment)

[annevk]

(In particular, it had pushback from a WYSIWYG editor developer (not editors of the HTML standard).)

[zcorpan]

(Clarified my comment)

[CBID2]

Hey @annevk. Just in case you need clarification from my reply on Element , I want to do this one.

[annevk]

Given that we never got follow-up on @zcorpan's explanation I don't think anything else is needed here. We'll leave this as-is.