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Re: Amaya 9.99 styling bug with legends/fieldset

From: Irene Vatton <vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:16:21 +0100
To: ve3ll@cogeco.ca
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <200802081116.21754.vatton@inrialpes.fr> 

On Sunday 13 January 2008 22:38, ve3ll@cogeco.ca wrote:
> The following example demos how you can apply a styling
> rule to a legend element and have its effect show up
> even though the document does not contain a legend element
> it appears that the style is inherited by fieldset and a false
> spacing is given to a pseudo legend...... very strange bug this is
> /

In the spec it's said  "The LEGEND element allows authors to assign a caption 
to a FIELDSET. The legend improves accessibility when the FIELDSET is 
rendered non-visually."
That explains why Amaya proposes by default. It suggest you to give a legend.

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Irène Vatton @ INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Received on Friday, 8 February 2008 10:19:05 GMT

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