I was merely highlighting that in the forms section of the HTML 5
diff doc, it describes the structure of forms with fieldsets and
labels. Why are lists required? By some reckoning, the fact that one
input element follows another means you need to order them. This is a
false precept. We do not need to order paragraphs to have _them_ make
semantic sense, so why do form input elements need to be listed in an
order in addition to the order they are provided in? The label/input
relation is similar to DT/DD but since forms have their own version
of the label > content paradigm, we should use that one within forms,
I would have thought.
Joe
On Feb 7 2008, at 16:05, Thomas Thomassen wrote:
Fieldsets and Labels is present in HTML4 as well. Don't see
anything new about that. Still need some extra elements to organise
them. Such as lists.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Ortenzi
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling forms
Has anyone looked up the HTML 5 pages on form elements?
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#forms
It's all fieldsets and labels... which makes more semantic sense
than paragraphs, lists, and dd/dl
JOe
On Feb 6 2008, at 04:06, Steve Green wrote:
There may be specific cases where it would be right to mark up a
form as a
list, although I can't think of one. As a general rule it would be
wrong.
The argument against marking up a form as a list is that a form is
not a
list. A form is one or more groups of form controls, and the fieldset
element is the correct means by which form controls should be
grouped.
Within a fieldset, paragraph elements should be used for
individual form
controls.
Steve
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Subject: [WSG] Styling forms
I've been looking at styling forms and I'm seeing some people mark
them up
as ordered lists and other using paragraphs. What are the
arguments for the
different markup types.
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