Is it correct to nest HTML definition lists (<dl>)?

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meleyal picture meleyal · Dec 23, 2008 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

Is it semantically correct to nest definition lists, or should they simply be a 'flat list of name/value pairs'.

The specs don't seem to forbid it.

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Yuliy picture Yuliy · Dec 23, 2008

Well the spec seems to allow it, provided that only the <dd> contains nested lists. The spec states that a <dt> is an inline element, so it can't contain a nested list. A <dd> is a block element, so an inner list inside one of these is fine.

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