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Re: a single label where multiple fields follow

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:52:22 +0100
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-ID: <20060921135222.GB17122@us-lot.org>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:44:54PM +0100, Paul Collins wrote:
>    Could you wrap the label around all of the inputs?
>    <label>text here<input 1><input 2><input 3></label>
>    A guess only

No.

   To associate a label with another control implicitly, the control
   element must be within the contents of the LABEL element. In this
   case, the LABEL may only contain one control element.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk
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