[whatwg] LABEL and radio/checkbox onclick
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Aug 17 17:00:36 PDT 2004
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote:
> > >
> > > Semantically, labels should *always* have connection so some control --
> >
> > Sure, but this cannot always be reflected in HTML. The most common example
> > would be a heading <label> for a set of radio buttons
>
> This is invalid markup.
Indeed; a <fieldset> would be more appropriate there.
According to WF2, if a label contains more than one control, it is only
associated with the first control.
> > (for which <fieldset> would usually be inappropriate).
I don't really see why. It's a set of fields.
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