Hello Thomas,
But I'm not sure I feel comfortable with
a <br> between the <label> and <input>.
I know developers are mostly split down the middle about this issue that
I've seen. To me, and perhaps this is really silly, but I really like my
sites to look and be just as usable with styles off as they are with styles
on, and I find adding breaks really neatens up the form visually when
viewing the site without styles, organizing it a bit. To me that's a
positive thing.
I don't think the break use has any bearing on the accessibility of the
form's elements so that doesn't seem to have bearing on my decision. No
negatives that I'm aware of.
Semantically speaking, I think the introduction of a break is akin to adding
a slight pause. I don't think that has any bearing on accessibility to that
end either.
I will say this, though, I do respect the choice made by those who choose
not to use it. So much so that the third version of my contact form script
has a configuration variable called $add_breaks to which entering "yes" will
add them in and entering "no" remove them. Each to their own I figured. No
harm either way that I know of so I may as well be accommodating :)
Cheers.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Thomassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling forms
Very interesting article. I'm reevaluating my options about lists on
forms.
But I'm not sure I feel comfortable with a <br> between the <label> and
<input>. Semantically it looks like it separates them, even though the FOR
attributes connects them.
If the <br> came after the <input> then both the <label> and the <input>
ends up in the same line without any CSS styling.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike at Green-Beast.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [WSG] Styling forms
Hi Rachel,
I'd be very interested in reading your article when it's ready
For better or worse, it's published:
http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=254
Cheers.
Mike
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