<dd>

The HTML <dd> element indicates the description of a term in a description list (<dl>).

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	Flow content.
Tag omission	The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <dd> element is immediately followed by another <dd> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element.
Permitted parents	<dl> or (in WHATWG HTML) a <div> that is inside a <dl>.
Previous sibling	<dt> or another <dd> element.
Permitted ARIA roles	None
DOM interface	HTMLElement

Attributes

This element's attributes include the global attributes.

nowrap non standard

If the value of this attribute is set to yes, the definition text will not wrap. The default value is no.

Example

For an example, see <dl> examples.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of '<dd>' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5 The definition of '<dd>' in that specification.	Recommendation
HTML 4.01 Specification The definition of '<dd>' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibility

[1] Up to Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 4) inclusive, Firefox implements the HTMLSpanElement interface for this element.

See also

• <dl>
• <dt>