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RE: <label> element

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From: Leo Smith
Date: Apr 1, 2002 2:43PM

Well, on one of my pages the form element's label is adjacent to it
(directly above), but in this instance the <form> tags cannot
encapsulate both the <label> and the form element:

<.tr valign="top">
<.td width="100%">
<.label for="quicklinks"><.img src="/images/title_quicklinks.gif"
width="165" height="25" border="0" alt="quick links"><./label>
<./td>
<./tr>
<.tr valign="top">
<.td width="100%">
<.form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/go-url.cgi">
<.select name="URL" class="homequicklinks"
id="quicklinks">
<.option value="something">something</option>
<./select>
<.input type="image" border="0"
src="/images/button_go_quicklinks.gif" width="19" height="19"
alt="go">
<./form>
<./td>
<./tr>

Is a screen reader not going to associate the label with the form
element in this instance?

Leo.


On 1 Apr 2002, at 11:13, Kevin Spruill wrote:

> Seems pretty straightforward either way - labels (logically) should be
> placed with the form elements they refer to... within the form. As for
> interpretation of the statue... how about this:



Leo Smith
Web Designer/Developer
USM Office of Publications and Marketing
University of Southern Maine
207-780-4774


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