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enriquto | on: On The <dl> (2021)
It's not that inconvenient if you omit unnecessary closing tags:

    <tr>
    <td> first
    <td> second
    <tr>
    <td> what
    <td> ever
I find it simpler and cleaner than any of the markdown table markups
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myfonj | parent | next
Fair point, though /DT and /DD are also optional just like /TH, /TD and /TR are. So in effect, def…scription list could structurally save you one TR for each entry and two "BLE"s:

    <table><tr><th>Term 1<td>Definition 1
           <tr><th>Term 2<td>Definition 2
    </table>
    <dl><dt>Term 1<dd>Definition 1
        <dt>Term 2<dd>Definition 2
    </dl>
debesyla | parent
Isn't markdown table just a bunch of | ?
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