[thelist] caption on images?

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Mon May 24 08:28:40 CDT 2004


On 24 May 2004, at 15:05, david.landy at somerfield.co.uk wrote:
> What's the semantic difference between an image that appears as an 
> <img> and
> one that appears as an <input type=image>?

The former is non-interactive content. The latter is an imagemap for 
the user to select coordinates from to send back to the server. It is 
similar to the difference between <div>/<span> and <textarea>/<input 
type="text">

> Why would a <label> be OK for one but not the other?

Labels label form controls, nothing else.

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