Re: [WSG] Styling forms

[Joe Ortenzi]

I was merely highlighting that in the forms section of the HTML 5  
diff doc, it describes the structure of forms with fieldsets and  
labels. Why are lists required? By some reckoning, the fact that one  
input element follows another means you need to order them. This is a  
false precept. We do not need to order paragraphs to have _them_ make  
semantic sense, so why do form input elements need to be listed in an  
order in addition to the order they are provided in? The label/input  
relation is similar to DT/DD but since forms have their own version  
of the label > content paradigm, we should use that one within forms,  
I would have thought.

Joe

On Feb 7 2008, at 16:05, Thomas Thomassen wrote:

Fieldsets and Labels is present in HTML4 as well. Don't see  
anything new about that. Still need some extra elements to organise  
them. Such as lists.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Ortenzi
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling forms

Has anyone looked up the HTML 5 pages on form elements?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#forms

It's all fieldsets and labels... which makes more semantic sense  
than paragraphs, lists, and dd/dl

JOe

On Feb 6 2008, at 04:06, Steve Green wrote:

There may be specific cases where it would be right to mark up a  
form as a
list, although I can't think of one. As a general rule it would be  
wrong.

The argument against marking up a form as a list is that a form is  
not a
list. A form is one or more groups of form controls, and the fieldset
element is the correct means by which form controls should be  
grouped.
Within a fieldset, paragraph elements should be used for  
individual form
controls.

Steve



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 06 February 2008 03:38
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Subject: [WSG] Styling forms

I've been looking at styling forms and I'm seeing some people mark  
them up
as ordered lists and other using paragraphs.  What are the  
arguments for the
different markup types.

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