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RE: using table headers as form labels

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From: Randy Pearson
Date: Oct 9, 2003 7:01AM

>> ... I have three select lists, one for day, one for month and one
for year. I felt I needed only one label "Select date of News Release" to
explain the purpose of the three fields ...

It seemed that, perhaps, grouping the 3 in a <fieldset>, and using the
<legend> to describe the set, could possibly be of use. But I cannot find
any way to style this in a way so that the <legend> could line up with the
labels on your other fields. It would be nice if, instead the ID of the
<fieldset> (with no legend) could be used as the target of the FOR of the
<label>, but I doubt assistive technologies make this interpretation. So,
although one of my references talks about <fieldset> as being a benefit to
accessibility, it seems just to miss the mark here.



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