- From: Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:02:14 +0200
- To: WCAG WG mailing list <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Andrew Kirkpatrick wrote:
> LABEL must not contain INPUT.
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/test186.html>
>
> I wholeheartedly disagree with this. This is valid HTML/XHTML and I
> have yet to find an issue with any of the user agents so long as the
> for/id attributes are also used, as they should be. On many forms this
> is in fact desireable since the label element takes CSS styling nicely
> so that a developer can put label {display:block;} into the CSS and have
> a very clean, neat, valid HTML file that works well with user agents
> also. I don't think that a valid practice should be prohibited.
Although it is valid, I think it's semantically questionable. From a
markup perspective, the contents of an element are part of the element.
A text or an image that appear in an h1 element make up a level 1
headline. So a form control descendant of a label element would be
considered part of the label. Hmm. But this is not an accessibility issue.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)
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