Re: Form "field" Elements

I agree.

It also makes sense, since this can be used in combination with the <fieldset> tag.

- Shefik

> On Jun 10, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Eric Devine <devineej@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1
> <form>
>   <p>
>     <label>Name</label>
>     <input />
>   </p>
> </form>
> has always felt semantically awkward to me
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Mr. Slayer <email@mrslayer.com> wrote:
>> I recently submitted my first suggestion to the living standard that is HTML, recommending that a `field` element be added for describing form controls.  You can see my submission here: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug..cgi?id=26009
>> 
>> A commenter suggested I post to this mailing list in order to get additional feedback.
>> 
>> Currently, many developers utilize paragraph or list item elements in order to differentiate “questions” on a form. A `field` element would eliminate the ambiguity and ensure that paragraphs are paragraphs, list items are list items, and fields are fields.
>> 
>> This has an added benefit of making the fieldset element more logical as it truly becomes a “set of field elements”.
>> 
>> Thank you for your consideration.
> 

Received on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:33:16 UTC