Katrina wrote:
> I note that in Mike's example, he using
> a <br /> in order to achieve a block-level
> style visual. Surely that should be avoidable?
> http://green-beast.com/gbcf/gbcf_form.php
Certainly it would be avoidable using "label { display : block; }" but I
wanted the form to retain its current organization regardless of
CSS-controls. I do believe this is an acceptable (as in non-harmful) use of
the break element.
> If the fieldset to contain label/input pairs is true
It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather a
group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use them to
contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as the type of
information sought (contact info, etc.). I should have probably not done
that to the submit type input though. That, I'm thinking it would have
better left in the form's main fieldset and not given its own since it's
grouped in with the form itself (a whole-form control) so to speak.
Cheers.
Mike Cherim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katrina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
> While I agree that use of lists, tables or definition lists is mere
> abuse, a fieldset is for grouping "thematically related controls and
> labels":
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-FIELDSET>
>
So a hypothetical (semantic!) form could/should look something like this
(I'm sure there are at least a million things wrong with my example -
pretend those errors aren't there):
<form action="" method="">
<fieldset><legend>The legend for the form</legend>
<fieldset><label for="name">You Name</label><input type="text"
name="name" id="name"></fieldset>
<fieldset><label for="poet">Favourite poet</label><input
type="text" id="poet" name="poet"></fieldset>
<fieldset><label for="dinosaur">Favourite dinsaur</label><input
type="text" name="dinosaur" id="dinosaur"></fieldset>
</fieldset>
</form>
My point being that fieldset could be used to wrap label and input pairs?
I always thought you had to have a group of controls (more than one
input field).
I note that in Mike's example, he using a <br /> in order to achieve a
block-level style visual. Surely that should be avoidable?
http://green-beast.com/gbcf/gbcf_form.php
If the fieldset to contain label/input pairs is true, it would be
exciting because it would mean that the form would look reasonable in
vanilla and could maintain semantics.
Kat
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