[whatwg] LABEL and radio/checkbox onclick

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Aug 26 06:15:41 PDT 2004


On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Matthew Thomas wrote:
>
> On 18 Aug, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > ...
> >   <p>The <code>label</code> element's exact default behaviour must
> >   match the platform's label behaviour. For example. on platforms
> >   where clicking a checkbox label checks the checkbox, clicking a
> >   <code>label</code> element must cause a <code>click</code> event to
> >   be synthesised and fired at the checkbox.</p>
> 
> Thanks. I would have been happy with "should", but if Dean can change 
> IE6's behavior to native behavior, "must" is fine by me. :-)

Changed to SHOULD, you're right, we shouldn't be forcing UI behaviour, 
even platform UI behaviour.

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