Re: proposed change: links inside label elements

I don't really have any use cases, I just noticed that you put one real
life example in the bug. So people just do this and supposedly will
continue doing this regardless the spec saying. That's why I thought the
spec would probably need to legalize that explicitly rather than deny that.
Alex.


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>wrote:

> What is idea of making an interactive element under the label as the
>> author mistake? Presumably it won't stop the author from doing this?
>> Shouldn't it be legalized instead?
>
>
> it has a negative effect on the function of the label and interaction with
> the control, it also harmonizes the conformance requirements with that of
> other interactive elements.
>
> do you know of any use cases for including links in label elements?
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> SteveF
> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
>
>
> On 13 January 2014 14:03, Alexander Surkov <surkov.alexander@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What is idea of making an interactive element under the label as the
>> author mistake? Presumably it won't stop the author from doing this?
>> Shouldn't it be legalized instead?
>> Alexander.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Currently the HTML spec allows links to be inside label elements [1]:
>>>
>>> example:
>>>
>>> <label for="test">
>>> <a href="http://google.com">google</a></label>
>>>
>>>
>>> <input id="test" type="checkbox">
>>>
>>> This is problematic because the standard behaviour for a label that is associated with a control is that when
>>>
>>>
>>> clicked/pressed it activates the control (in the example case would check/uncheck the checkbox), but when as in the example
>>>
>>> the label includes a link, clicking /pressing the label activates the link not the control.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I propose to change the spec to disallow links in labels (i.e. make it an author conformance error).
>>>
>>> current text:
>>>
>>> Content model:Phrasing content, but with no descendant* labelable *elements
>>>> [2] unless it is the element's labeled control, and no descendant labelelements.
>>>
>>>
>>> proposed text:
>>>
>>> Content model:Phrasing content, but with no descendant* interactive *elements
>>>> [3] unless it is the element's labeled control, and no descendant labelelements.
>>>
>>>
>>>  [1]
>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-label-element
>>> [2]
>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#labelable-elements
>>> [3]
>>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/dom.html#interactive-content-0
>>>
>>> feedback welcome!
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> SteveF
>>> HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>
>>>
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