List Caption

[Jerome]

I'd love to see a way of encoding some sort of LIST description... much like what you get to do with TABLES.

What are LISTS if not 1 dimension data collections... they're not really all that different from TABLES... just needed more often as the right information model.

Something like:
<ol>
<caption>Employees</caption>
<li>Paul Hudson</li>
<li>Cathy Trudeau</li>
<li>Louis Gauthier</li>
</ol>

Which would naturally render as:
Employees:
•Paul Hudson
•Cathy Trudeau
•Louis Gauthier


Usefull for things like
<ul>
<caption>Tags</caption>
<li><a href="/tag/music" rel="tag">music</a></li>
<li><a href="/tag/beatles" rel="tag">Beatles</a></li>
<li><a href="/tag/john+lennon" rel="tag">John Lennon</a></li>
</ul>

It would also make a nice logo holder for a header+menu where the LI are menu items... or a nice side submenu header...

<ul class="submenu">
<caption>Affiliates</caption>
<li><a href="/register.html">Register as an affiliate</a></li>
<li><a href="/mediakit.html">Media Kit and Banners</a></li>
<li><a href="/terms.html" rel="tag">Affiliate program terms</a></li>
</ul>

[Jerome]

could also be done as a <lh> element... such as
<ul>
<lh>Weekend Todo List</lh>
<li>Change lightbulb</li>
<li>Plant Flowers</li>
</ul>

Either way it would ass some semantic to lists that classes don't...
A class would tell you a list is a submenu but a caption or an "li" is a much better way of attaching a readable label to the list.... like "Artist Portfolio".

[haka]

I think the best solution is the section element. Using elements in a new case makes it more difficult than it must be. And with the section element, there is no problem with multidimensional lists.

<section>
<h1>My List</h1>
<ul>
<li>List entries ...</li>
</ul>
</section>

[zcorpan]

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