HTML5: dialog – conversation

dialog – conversation # T

The dialog element represents a conversation.

Content model #

dialog = (dt , dd)* & dialog.attrs

Attribute model #

dialog.attrs = common.attrs

Tag omission #

A dialog element must have both a start tag and an end tag.

Permitted contexts #

common.elem.flow

Details #

The dialog element represents a conversation, which consists of zero or more talker-discourse (speaker-quote) pairs; each pair associates a talker/speaker (represented by a dt element) with a span of discourse/quote (represented by a dd element).