[whatwg] form markup

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Feb 24 04:13:10 PST 2009


On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Rikkert Koppes wrote:
>
> There are various ways to forms are beining marked up, to name a few
> 1. use a table, put labels and inputs in cells
> 2. use a dl, put labels in dt, put inputs in dd
> 3. use p elements to surround label and input pairs
> 4. use an ol element, let li surround label and input pairs
> 5. use an ul element, let li surround label and input pairs
> 
> Is there any preferred method?

It's hard to tell without more details on what kind of form you have in 
mind. For most forms, I tend to prefer <p> elements personally.

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