Re: [WSG] semantic way to mark up form help?

[Mordechai Peller]

Lee Roberts wrote:
First Labels should not wrap the input. The elements within the Label tag become the label. By wrapping the input with the Label you are stating the input is part of its own Label. That's wrong.
 

Sorry, but that's wrong. Enclosing the input within the label is a 
prescribed method (the other is the "for" attribute). UA's are required 
to understand that the enclosed input is the input to which the rest of 
the label is referring.

DIV is a layer. Your better choice is P
You're just replacing one invalid method with another. Only inline can 
go in a label.

unless you are splitting the horizontal into two or more sections which would then require either a table or a few inline DIVS.
 

I guess once you're already doing thing in an invalid fashion, you might 
as well go all the way,
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