question-answer-examples

Question & Answer Examples

Examples of questions & answers on web pages.

Contributors

Andy Mabbett,Taylor Cowan

General

• Google search for "faq"
• http://microformats.org/wiki/faq - this 'wiki'
  • Note use of list of Qs as table of contents, then repeated with respective answers.
• http://www.met.police.uk/dataprotection/faq.htm
• http://mnnc.net/faq
  • use of definition list, dl/dt/dd tags
• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
  • uses definition lists, dl/dt/dd tags
• http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq
  • another definition list based Q/A example
• http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp
  • question/answer indicated by class of divs
• http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/
  • complex, outline style with questions grouped in hierarchies
• The Firefox faq is marked up with <dl> http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq as is the old Mozilla 1.5 FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#newprofile Both of them are separated into sections and have tables of contents.
• For the W3C XHTML faq, the table of contents is in an ordered list, and contains urls that point to the question/answer fragments below. The question answer fragments are an h3 element paired with one or more p elements.
• For the Brainstorms and Raves article on HTML, XHTML, and Structure, the faq is definition list enclosed in a div element of the class faq. Questions are inside of dt elements, and answers inside of dd elements. If a question has multiple answers, there would be a seperate dd element for each answer.

Multi-page FAQs

• http://www.nhs.uk/England/NoAppointmentNeeded/WalkInCentres/Default.aspx
  • Lists of questions on one page, repeated, singly, with single answer on separate page.

Questions lacking specificity

• http://www.ratemds.com/faq.jsp
  • What is the purpose of this site?
    • could be: what is the purpose of ratemds.com?
  • Who can rate?
    • "Who can rate MDs on ratemds.com?
  • What is your privacy policy?
    • What is the privacy policy of ratemds.com?

Would love to know the answer to the question posted. How do we know that the ratings on the doctors are from real people? just wondering. apart from that i like it... Dental implants astoriaAlbert Malakov, DDS http://www.implantsandperioastoria.com

Non-questioning questions

• http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/faq.shtml
  • "sign me up" (the last item)

Formats

NOTE: This should really be moved to qa-formats.

• DocBook has a <qandaset> element http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/qandaset.html which is used with <question> and <answer> elements, and optionally <qandadiv> elements.

See also

• question-answer-brainstorming