[Bug 13553] 4.10.6 confusing, seemlingly contradictory text

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13553

--- Comment #6 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
So re-reading again - the preceding sentence to the one quoted states:
"If the for attribute is not specified, but the label element has a labelable
element descendant, then the first such descendant in tree order is the label
element's labeled control."
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-label-element

which covers the test case I put in the previous comment.

the intent of the second sentence  is to cover this case (i believe)


<label>Lost <input type=text name=lost id="lost"> </label>

<label for="lost">found <input type=text name=found id="found"> </label>

See Ian's Comment 2 "The sentence is question is required to make sure that if
you click on a text field inside a <label> whose labeled control is another
text field, you don't end up focusing the other text field (which would be
rather confusing to users)."

from testing FF/IE/Chrome on windows 8, the behaviour is consistent, clicking
on the second label focuses the first control, which appears contrary to what
the spec is trying to stop.

what appears to be the case for the browsers tested is that for/id labelling
overrides nested control labeling.

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Received on Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:23:27 UTC