DT - Definition term

Appearance:	<DT> [</DT>]
Attributes:	None.
Contents:	TT, I, B, U, STRIKE, BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP, EM, STRONG, DFN, CODE, SAMP, KBD, VAR, CITE, A, APPLET, IMG, FONT, BASEFONT, BR, MAP, INPUT, SELECT, TEXTAREA and plain text.
May occur in:	DL.

The DT tag is used inside DL. It marks up a term whose definition is provide by the next DD. The DT tag may only contain text-level markup.

Notes:

Although it is legal, using a DT without a corresponding DD tag is quite pointless.