Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-26 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Peter Ottery wrote: 1) I'm curious if the use of an asterix to indicate a required field, and the way I've done it, is ok accessibility-wise or if theres anything else i could/should do...? G'day Pete I've recently undertaken the same work myself. I'm beginning to undertake a very OO approach to

[WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Ottery
I've set up a base standard form layout to use as a starting point for projects requiring a form - with text input boxes, check box's, radio buttons, a select menu, and a text area that could all be swapped in or out or duplicated relatively easily. here's the page:

Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Dmitry Baranovskiy
Hi Peter, I am not shure about asteri, but I think it is not very usable that if I click on the text near checkbox, checkbox doesn't change its state. On 4/22/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a base standard form layout to use as a starting point for projects requiring a

Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Ottery
Dmitry wrote: Hi Peter, I am not shure about asteri, but I think it is not very usable that if I click on the text near checkbox, checkbox doesn't change its state. for sure. that behaviour (thanks to using labels) works for me in PC IE5+ and Firefox (which is a pretty large slice of users) in

Re: [WSG] a required field marker in forms

2005-04-22 Thread Jeremy Keith
Here's a little piece of DOM scripting that will redress the lack of label behaviour in Safari. It's basically just doing what's built in to many browsers: clicking on a label brings the associated from element into focus: function makeLabelsWork() { if