[html5] How to mark up FAQ

[Gordon Baker]

> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:28:44 +0000
> From: ian at hixie.ch
> To: gbakerled at outlook.com
> CC: help at lists.whatwg.org
> Subject: Re: [html5] How to mark up FAQ

> There's an example in the spec of marking up a FAQ in the <dt> section:
> 
> http://whatwg.org/html/#the-dt-element
Indeed -- how did I miss that whimsical example?!
> The WHATWG FAQ itself is marked up using <hx> and <p>.
 Yeah I noticed that but (1) thought it might have been a relic waiting to be updated and/or (2) didn't think wiki markup had any markup options such as dl's. Anyway, OK, the h-p structure is intentional.
> > The h1-p option would create an implicit section for each question and 
> > affect the document outline. Perhaps that would be a good thing if you 
> > wanted to create a TOC for the FAQ...
> 
> Yeah, that's more or less why we use it in the WHATWG FAQ.
Got it.
> > The association list (dl) seems like a reasonable option if you don't 
> > want to affect the document's outline. I'm not sure of any 
> > advantages/disadvantages of this markup, though.
> 
> There's not really any disadvantages that I can see.
> 
> 
> > The details-summary option seems nice if you want a "collapsed" FAQs, 
> > particularly for those who don't know how to program in JS, but IE and 
> > FF don't yet support this functionality AFAICT. Also not sure if FAQ was 
> > an intended use of details-summary, semantically.
> 
> It's a bit of a stretch, but could probably be defended.
Good to know.
> 
> HTH,
Yup, will probably go with h-p, thanks.
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