HTMLDListElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLDListElement interface provides special properties (beyond those of the regular HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating definition list (<dl>) elements.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLDListElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLDListElement.compact Deprecated

A boolean value indicating that spacing between list items should be reduced.

Instance methods

No specific methods; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# htmldlistelement

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also

  • The HTML element implementing this interface: <dl>