# "Definition Lists" possible?
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/definition-lists-possible/3961
**Category:** Ideas
**Created:** [March 13, 2026, 10:38am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/definition-lists-possible/3961 "2026-03-13T10:38:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@zeus-web](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zeus-web)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 10:38am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/definition-lists-possible/3961/1 "2026-03-13T10:38:57Z")
I found a Markdown example [here](http://github.com/Poeschl/Markdown-Lebenslauf) which basically uses "Definition Lists" (also described here: [Extended Syntax | Markdown Guide](https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/)) to generate a nice CV.
Example Markdown:
```auto
Name
: John Doe
Geburtsdaten
: 01.01.1980 im Nirgendwo
Adresse
: Hauptstraße 11
10411 Berlin
Telefon
: [0176 123456789](tel:+49176123456789)
```
Which renders to something like this (note the "headers" on the left and "text" on the right columns:
There are some more examples on the link above.
I really like the principle and wonder, if it would be possible within silverbullet, too.
Of course, I can achieve that using tables, too. But the definition list syntax is way more easy to use.
And there are even more usecases for displaying data that way.
Could such "extended markdown syntaxes" be added to Silverbullet? Or does it depend on CodeMirror completely, so we'd have to ask there?
What do you guys think?
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### Author:  [@mjf](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/mjf)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/definition-lists-possible/3961/2 "2026-03-13T11:38:36Z")
Could you live with data blocks?
```auto
Name: John Doe
Geburtsdaten: 01.01.1980 im Nirgendwo
Adresse: |
Hauptstraße 11
10411 Berlin
Telefon: [0176 123456789](tel:+49176123456789)
```
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### Author:  [@zeus-web](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zeus-web)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/definition-lists-possible/3961/3 "2026-03-13T14:11:03Z")
For address data like in the example, yes, indeed that could be another solution - and combining with queries I could format it in a nice looking table, too.
But still kind of impractical to use for other more generic definitions/textblocks like the other examples, like these:
