Re: Styling by attribute-based association?

Daniel Glazman wrote:
> 
> David Hyatt wrote:
>>
>> Another (IMO simpler) idea would be to just have label match the same 
>> pseudo-classes that the control does, i.e., if a checkbox is :checked, 
>> then the label can match :checked too.  Same for :disabled, :enabled, 
>> :indeterminate, and :focus.  I don't see any reason to introduce new 
>> selectors to solve this problem.
> 
> Let's go back in time for a second since this issue was raised precisely
> 3 years ago : my opinion as both Selectors' editor and CSS WG
> co-chairman is that this issue is outside of the scope of the CSS
> Working Group and it's up to the markup language to state that this or
> that state set on the control is mirrored onto the label having a
> |for| attribute targeting that control. To summarize, it's IMHO an
> HTML5 issue.
> Of course, that's just me but I'll support that idea until my last drop
> of blood ;-)
> 

The ultimate way of preventing CSS WG co-chairmans from perishing on 
barricades:

1) Add 'checkbox' and 'radio' to the list of allowed values of
    the 'type' attribute of the <button>.
2) To enable CSS on the element.

So you can define this:

<button type="radio">Click Me!</button>
<button type="radio">Or Me!</button>

without the need of that artificial label thing at all.

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Andrew Fedoniouk.

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