Chris Kennon wrote:
This would be explicit?
<label for="foo">Foo
And this implied?
<input type=text id="foo" name="foo" />
It can be a tad confusing, as the spec itself
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9 uses "implicit" in
two different ways:
1) a form control such as a submit button has its own *implicit* label
already contained within it
<input type="submit" value="implicit label" /> and does not need a label
element.
2) when talking about labels associated with form controls, however,
using a "for" attribute and related "id" is *explicit*
<label for="foo">explicit label</label>
<input type="text" id="foo" name="foo" />
and not using "for", but wrapping the form control inside the actual
label element is what's referred to as *implicit*
<label>implicit label <input type="text" name="foo" /></label>
The "belt and braces" approach when using labels is to make the label
both explicit (via "for") *and* implicit (by wrapping the control in the
label)
<label for="foo">explicit and implicit label <input type="text" id="foo"
name="foo" /></label>
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