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Chapter 5. Working with Fonts, Text Bloc... > Placing Lists Within Lists
Placing Lists Within Lists
Although definition lists are officially supposed to be used for defining terms, many web page authors use them anywhere they’d like to see some indentation. In practice, you can indent any text simply by putting <dl><dd> at the beginning of it and </dd></dl> at the end and skipping over the <dt></dt> tag pair. However, a better approach to indenting text is to use the <blockquote></blockquote> tag pair, which indents content without the presumption of a definition and allows for much more clear styling. With one set of attributes, you can set the width, height, background color, border type and color of your element area, and other visual effects.
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Nesting refers to a tag that appears entirely within another tag. Nested tags are also referred to as child tags of the (parent) tag that contains them. It is a common (but not required) coding practice to indent nested tags so that you can easily see their relationship to the parent tag.
