Question & Answer Examples

Examples of questions & answers on web pages.

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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.

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

http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/leap.html
- several examples, e.g. "What makes you think that's the correct rule?"

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.