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Re: Accessible web forms: default text in edit boxes and text areas

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 24, 2005 5:35AM

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, redux wrote:

> I checked it, and it seems to work in IE6, 5.5, 5 and even 4.
> - - there does *not* seem to be a problem with the "for"
> attribute.
>
> So, again...am I missing something here? Do the problems describes by
> Jukka appear under IE/Mac, maybe?

No, I've actually never seen IE on Mac.

It seems that I have messed things up when writing on the basis of what I
remember from my old experiments. You are right, IE supports the "for"
attribute in the sense that it associates the label with the field.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/