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Re: textbox in table cell

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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Mar 26, 2008 8:30PM

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 10:17 -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Lee, Samson (HRSA) [C] < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > Each textbox has to be tied to two "labels" (one column
> > header, one row header), so I don't think I can use the
> > <label> tag...
>
> You are correct. You can't associate a form element with two separate
> labels.

Is that a limitation of the assistive technologies' capabilities?
Because it certainly isn't a violation of the HTML4 spec:

"Each LABEL element is associated with exactly one form control."

but:

"More than one LABEL may be associated with the same control by creating
multiple references via the for attribute."

(http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1)

--Chris