DL Lists are used to display lists of items along with description and dl stands for description list. Each item is denoted by <dt> and dt stands for description term and each item is described by <dd>, dd stands for description definition.
<dl>
<dt>Item 1</dt>
<dd>Description</dt>
<dt>Item 2</dt>
<dd>Description</dt>
</dl>
You can use dl lists any where within an HTML document.
dl has no type but it has indent.
Description list is a pair tag and output of dl element is list of elements along with description like you can see in above example.
Open notepad or any other text editor, follow the following points.
save file with name task.html or task.htm and then open it using any browser and see results.
Don't forget dl is non empty element which means it always comes in pair.