- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:01:53 +1000
Michel Fortin wrote: > Le 12 avr. 2006 ? 14:02, Ben Meadowcroft a ?crit : >> I'd prefer using a caption element, even if it isn't backwards >> compatible. >> However as an alternative why not reuse the label element? > > Apparently, the label element used outside a fieldset has the same > problems as caption outside a table (not present in the DOM, impossible > to style). At least on Gecko and WebKit. > > <http://www.michelf.com/docs/figure.html> I think you confused the <legend> and <label> elements, because what you said and what you tested doesn't correspond. Your test doesn't use the <label> element, it uses the <caption> and <legend> elements. <label> certainly doesn't suffer from such problems, but using it for labelling things other than form controls seems wrong to me anyway. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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