On May 8, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
...
From the behavioral point of view: The purpose of a LABEL control is to
redirect focus on click.  It does not make much sense with a TEXTAREA
control that is usually big enough to click upon.
...

If a browser redirects focus to a *text field* when you click its <label>, on a platform where that doesn't happen in native GUIs (e.g. Windows, Mac OS, Gnome, or KDE), that's a bug in the browser. Web Forms 2 clarifies this.
<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#label>

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/

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