- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 21:00:37 -0600
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> There's a problem with forms, specifically checkboxes and radio buttons,
> where the text associated with the item wraps separately. I've tried
> between them, I've tried Netscape's <nobr> element, but there does not seem
> to be any way to bind them together. It's too bad we never had a label=
> attribute for <input>, as that would have prevented the problem (and would
> have allowed RTL direction for RTL languages to be automatic, layout-wise).
It's too bad we didn't have them from the beginning, but we do have
them. They've been a W3C recommendation since Dec 1997. The current
spec is:
17.9 Labels
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/interact/forms.html#h-17.9
[[[
In this example, we implicitly associate two labels with two text input
controls:
<FORM action="..." method="post">
<P>
<LABEL>
First Name
<INPUT type="text" name="firstname">
</LABEL>
<LABEL>
<INPUT type="text" name="lastname">
Last Name
</LABEL>
</P>
</FORM>
]]]
I think the idea was first published Apr 1997:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-forms-970402
--
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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