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Re: A List of Form Elements?

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Mar 12, 2012 6:42PM

I'm not a fan of list-items in forms, either. I've rarely seen it
done and have often argued against it. When I'm in a form, I find
the indication of list-items distracting and disorienting from the
task at hand. Honestly, it just feels semantically wrong to me.

Jennifer

At 04:18 PM 3/12/2012, you wrote:
>I'm not a fan of lists to differentiate form items. You adequately
>note the disadvantages, which I think outweigh any perceived benefits.
>In most cases, the form is navigated from form control to form control
>anyway (i.e., hitting the Tab key), so the only real advantage (that
>the number of items is identified) often doesn't occur anyway.
>
>The <div> markup could probably be simplified even more with
><form class="aform">
><div>...<label>...<input>...</div>
></form>
>and
>.aform div { }
>to define the necessary styling.
>
>Jared Smith
>WebAIM.org
>