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Re: [External Sender] Use of label without input

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 15, 2019 11:56AM

So it looks like it's perfectly legit to use a label instead of a legend as
the group label of a fieldset element.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:45 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I find it silly to use a <label> if you're not labeling anything. You
> don't get any extra semantic info from using that element by itself.
>
> The official html spec for the label,
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/sec-forms.html*the-label-element__;Iw!0Ns9_1dOjwg!Mf7wWYgTjOxjs2lYmelag-QwuoP2BqIL52bi2i8C-08TDVeQew4RnrVp0vfPKmZXIg_lHQ$
> , says it
> should be used with a "labelable element". A list of labelable elements is
> provide at
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/sec-forms.html*labelable-element__;Iw!0Ns9_1dOjwg!Mf7wWYgTjOxjs2lYmelag-QwuoP2BqIL52bi2i8C-08TDVeQew4RnrVp0vfPKmbYZ_N-7g$
> (which is the same url as the <label> spec but further up the page).
> > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://list.webaim.org/__;!0Ns9_1dOjwg!Mf7wWYgTjOxjs2lYmelag-QwuoP2BqIL52bi2i8C-08TDVeQew4RnrVp0vfPKmZgqTNUJw$
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