On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:22 AM, Ted Drake wrote: > I think a fieldset could be used outside a form if you are > using it to group similar links. We can fixate on the name or > look at the purpose. It says, the fields inside it are > related. If the standards say it can be outside a form than > we can use it to group similar objects.
Let's just clarify this -- the DTD says that a fieldset "can" be outside a form, but only really because it is defined as a block level element. I don't think that supercedes the intent of the element though. As you said, look at its purpose: "The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related controls and labels." http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-FIELDSET And controls are form fields of some sort: buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, text boxes, textareas, file selects, etc... http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.2 I'd say that using fieldset and legend to present groups of links in this way is twisting its meaning completely. If you want the closest semantic relationship possible for presenting a list of related links, you might consider a definition list. The title of the group of links is the <dt></dt> and each of the links could be the <dd></dd>. You might even use a properly-coded, semantically-structured table to do the job. My preference would be to use appropriate headings with a <ul></ul>, or even a nested list structure, but I can't see using fieldset for it... Best regards, Derek. -- Derek Featherstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 613.599.9784; toll-free: 1.866.932.4878 (North America) Web Accessibility: http://www.wats.ca Personal: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
