Re: HTML5 tag specs [via HTML5 Specifications Community Group]

I stand corrected. And all this time we have been using it wrong. Curious
thing though, browsers parse it just as well.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#attr-label-for

Ricardo Vercesi
web and beyond...


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:50 PM, <laurent.goderre@gmail.com> wrote:

> We must have different sources.
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> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/label
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>   *From: *Ricardo Vercesi
> *Sent: *Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:19 AM
> *To: *laurent.goderre@gmail.com
> *Cc: *Elcio Abrahao; public-html5spec@w3.org
> *Subject: *Re: HTML5 tag specs [via HTML5 Specifications Community Group]
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> Rule says <label for="nameOfElement"></label>
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> Ricardo Vercesi
> web and beyond...
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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:05 PM, <laurent.goderre@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think the for needs to reference the id of the form control instead of
>> the name.
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>>    *From: *Ricardo Vercesi
>> *Sent: *Thursday, January 23, 2014 6:40 AM
>> *To: *Elcio Abrahao
>> *Cc: *public-html5spec@w3.org
>> *Subject: *Re: HTML5 tag specs [via HTML5 Specifications Community Group]
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>> The "for" attribute is used usually within the label tag and should refer
>> to the name of the element. So if you have a radio button named "myRadio"
>> the for attribute of your label should be "myRadio" as well and not "radio".
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>> Ricardo Vercesi
>> web and beyond...
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>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Elcio Abrahao <
>> elcio_abrahao@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
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>>> Hi Guys !!!
>>>
>>> My name is Elcio Abrahão and I m an University Teacher in São Paulo -
>>> Brazil.
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>>> I m using HTML5 to teach programing for my students the form did not
>>> change the
>>> output value when I add a field type "radio" to the "for" attribute. Is
>>> this a
>>> project specification or this is a [...]
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