[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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