[thelist] form label tag

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 12 15:11:01 CDT 2002


--- "Timothy J. Luoma" <lists at tntluoma.com> wrote:
> Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
>
> > Can somebody remind me what the benefit is of using the <label>
> tag
> > in forms?
>
> In a word: Accessibility.
>
> WCAG 12.4
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-associate-labels
>
> Quick Reference to 508 and WCAG:
> http://tntluoma.com/sidebars/section508/
>
> TjL

Ah, so the input has to be INSIDE the label, so I can't use them on
separate rows right? It must be <label for="1">One<input type="text"
id="1" name="1"></label>

is that correct?

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