Form "field" Elements from Mr. Slayer on 2014-06-10 (public-html@w3.org from June 2014)

From: Mr. Slayer <email@mrslayer.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:05:07 -0400
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <A2B95884-D405-4DD0-8D5C-75B5D2D33286@mrslayer.com>

I recently submitted my first suggestion to the living standard that is HTML, recommending that a `field` element be added for describing form controls.  You can see my submission here: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26009

A commenter suggested I post to this mailing list in order to get additional feedback.

Currently, many developers utilize paragraph or list item elements in order to differentiate “questions” on a form. A `field` element would eliminate the ambiguity and ensure that paragraphs are paragraphs, list items are list items, and fields are fields.

This has an added benefit of making the fieldset element more logical as it truly becomes a “set of field elements”.

Thank you for your consideration.

Received on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 17:32:35 UTC