On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:37:31 +0100, Elliotte Harold
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently in HTML 4, and apparently in Web Forms 2, there is a rule that
each label element applies to exactly one input field. 10 inputs, at
least 10 labels.
However looking at a number of tabular but not exactly repeating forms,
both on the Web and on paper, I notice that it common for the column
headers to essentially serve as label for the input fields. For example
Homework 1 Homework 2 Homework 3
John Smith 87 86 98
Jane Jones 100 78 98
Fred Wilde 89 65 69
What strikes me about examples like this is that the labels for the
input fields naturally apply to more than one input field. For example,
in the above each label covers three fields. I wonder if there's a
common use case to say something like
<label for="A1 A2 A3">Homework 1</label>
<label for="B1 B2 B3">Homework 2</label>
<label for="C1 C2 C3">Homework 3</label>
Currently this is not possible. The label's for attribute can only point
to one input element.
We could just say that if a form control is in a table data cell, and
doesn't have a <label> associated with it, then the cell's header cells
are labels for the form control.
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Simon Pieters
