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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by robin_reala on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:12PM (#13624177)
Not that I diagree with your premise, but in this particular example the WHATWG HTML Living Standard now allows containing divs around dt/dd pairings[1] and browers support this fine.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-dl...

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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by c-smile on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:26PM (#13624249)
That requires change of existing markup and somehow its semantic changes too, right?

Yet this is not "resolution friendly".

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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by robin_reala on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:45PM (#13624360)
Semantics is defined by the specification, so in this case no. But yes, a change of the markup.
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Re:The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (2014) by c-smile on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:52PM (#13624397)
What if space allows and I will want to have four columns table:

    dl { flow: row(dt,dd,dt,dd); }
Changing markup structure is not a good idea if to consider that the same markup shall be used on different medias.
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