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Re: [External Sender]Use of label without input

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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Nov 15, 2019 12:36PM

Oh Glen, you are so right, thanks for pointing that out. I totally missed
that column

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:08 PM glen walker < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Depends what you mean by "legit". The list of "labelable elements" does
> not show that a fieldset can be labeled by a <label> element. Look at the
> last column of the table in
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/sec-forms.html*labelable-element__;Iw!0Ns9_1dOjwg!I668vx4gU8CYeJJSVck_raxxrCiynUIPJUs61sKi6_a_ohpRpZzvYfciiddcCnz-gaIlQA$
> .
>
> You'll get a parsing error if you try something like this:
>
> <label for="stuff">hello</label>
> <fieldset id="stuff"></fieldset>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:56 AM Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > So it looks like it's perfectly legit to use a label instead of a legend
> as
> > the group label of a fieldset element.
> >
> >
> >
> > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://list.webaim.org/__;!0Ns9_1dOjwg!I668vx4gU8CYeJJSVck_raxxrCiynUIPJUs61sKi6_a_ohpRpZzvYfciiddcCnyR4DZieA$
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