Re: forms - checkbox labels and wrapping

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, 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).

This is something that we hope to address in the work on the
next generation of forms, see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Monday, 10 January 2000 07:01:01 UTC