Re: Bug in HTML::Form <label> support

Dan Kubb writes:

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Is in common use? What browsers support it?

Regards,
Gisle

Re: Bug in HTML::Form <label> support

Hi Gisle,

> Is in common use? What browsers support it?

The tag is fairly widely supported by the major
browsers, especially in Mozilla and IE 4+ I believe. It
was introduced in HTML 4, and continues on into
XHTML 1 and 2.

I wouldn't say it's in common use outside of developers,
but it is helpful when you want to assign text to an
input field -- that was the purpose the W3C intended
for the tag.

Here's a couple of good article about why you would use
the tag:

http://webpages.charter.net/mmmbeer/code/forms/labels/
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/

In summary it allows you to:

- Makes forms more accessible. Screen readers
that read web page content aloud can know *for
certain* which text to read when describing the
form fields.

- Makes forms more usable. The clickable area is
increased to include the label text as well as the
radio/checkboxes. This is good for visually impaired
users.

- Provides a semantic container for linking CSS
styles to (among other things). Rather than using
span/div/td/etc tags to wrap the label text for
styling, this tag was actually designed for the
purpose.

I can't remember the last time I made a form without
using the tag, its just habit now. I usually
combine