HTML Codes

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<DT>

Attribute for <DL ...>
COMPACT

COMPACT tells the browser to try to take up less space rendering the definition list. This is usually done by not putting a carriage return after very short terms.

<DL COMPACT>
<DT>Internet Engineering Task Force
 <DD>An organization which establishes technical standards for the Internet
<DT>e
 <DD>Often used as a prefix to indicate the electronic version of something
<DT>spam
 <DD>annoying email and news postings which waste time and bandwidth
</DL>

produces

Internet Engineering Task Force

An organization which establishes technical standards for the Internet

e

Often used as a prefix to indicate the electronic version of something

spam

annoying email and news postings which waste time and bandwidth

The term e and its definition are probably on the same line. However, Internet Engineering Task Force is probably rendered exactly the same way as it is without COMPACT . In practice, COMPACT doesn't usually save much space, and it makes the definition list harder to read.

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