- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:51:33 +0200
Mark Schenk wrote: > > I do not entirely agree that the HTML title attribute is equivalent to > the XForms hint element[3], as in the following example which for > entering a (customer-/tracking-)id as is often used in correspondence > between company and customer: > > <input type="text" > name="uid" > title="Correspondence Number" > pattern="some-regexp-here" > hint="The correspondence number is a number of the form > 1234-56-789" /> > > The title describes what the field is about and hint describes in what > format the data should be entered, which I think are two distinctly > different things. Shouldn't that be <label for="corr">Correspondence Number</label><input id="corr" ... /> ? (Making the label a tooltip would be a presentational tweak.) ~fantasai -- http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact
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