The HTML <dt> tag is used to define the start of a term in a definition list.
A definition list is similar to other lists but in a definition list, each list item contains two entries; a term and a description.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML dt Tag</title> </head> <body> <dl> <dt>Definition List</dt> <dd>A list of terms and their definitions/descriptions.</dd> <dt>JAVA</dt> <dd>Tutorial on JAVA Programming Language.</dd> <dt>Android</dt> <dd>Tutorial on Android Operating System.</dd> </dl> </body> </html>
This will produce the following result −
This tag supports all the global attributes described in HTML Attribute Reference
This tag supports all the event attributes described in HTML Events Reference
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