<dd>: The HTML Description Definition Element

1 Description

The HTML description definition <dd> element contains the definition, or description, or value for the preceding description term <dt> element. Both <dd> elements and <dt> elements are always children of a datalist <dl> element.

2 Examples

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Types of Markup Languages</h1>
        <dl>
            <dt>HTML</dt>
            <dd>
                Hypertext Markup Language, is commonly used to create webpages.
            </dd>
            <dt>CSS</dt>
            <dd>
                Cascading Style Sheets, is used to style, and control the appearance
                of HTML webpages.
            </dd>
            <dt>JSON</dt>
            <dd>
                Javascript Object Notation, is generally used to encode structured
                information which is then passed between a web browser (client)
                and a web server (server). JSON has other uses as well.
            </dd>
        </dl>
    </body>
</html>

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