In most GUI frameworks, checkbox and radio button *include* the labeling text so you have a larger target for selection. However, with HTML you must select the (usually) tiny box to effect the change. One solution would have been to define <INPUT> as a container but it's obviously too late for that. So it would seem that we need some way of grouping label text along with the input field such as: <ENCLOSE> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="box1" VALUE="Selected"> BOX #1 </ENCLOSE> Such that selecting ``BOX #1'' would activate the checkbox. There is a colision with the function of <A HREF=""> inside the enclosing tags (does the selection then activate the anchor or the checkbox) so that would need to be resolved (though it's probably more a function of the user interface than the markup spec). It would also be upto the browser authors to define the visual effects, if any, of this tag and style-sheets would probably want to be able to specify sunken/raised attributes, etc (hopefully in a portable way).Received on Wednesday, 10 September 1997 15:53:59 GMT
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