- From: Jukka Korpela <jukka.korpela@tieke.fi>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:34:01 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Jon Hanna wrote: > Form can only directly contain a block element, hence you need > to have a block element that can contain inline (<p>, <div>, > <td> etc.) in the form and the <input /> or whatever inside that. Yes, so the fields need not be included into <p> elements; other block elements will do, syntactically at least. The principle that inline (text level) elements need to be wrapped inside block level containers (in HTML 4 Strict) is a relatively old one. Even the HTML 2.0 specification contained a "Strict Level 1 HTML DTD", where a <body> element must not directly contain inline elements. What does it matter? Well, from the accessibility point of view, it is very natural to group e.g. an input field and the associated label inside a <div>, especially since it's normally best that they appear on a line of their own. And this automatically puts them inside a block level container. Such constructs might be _additionally_ grouped inside enclosing <div> or other elements, such as <fieldset>. I'd say that normally <p> is not the logical markup to use inside a <form> except for longish explanations (instructions). A label/field pair is not really a paragraph, and neither is a collection of such pairs. -- Jukka Korpela, senior adviser TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre http://www.tieke.fi/ Diffuse Business Guide to Web Accessibility and Design for All: http://www.diffuse.org/accessibility.html
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