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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Sun, Dec 04 2011 2:00AM
Subject: Re: Looking for an alternative to fieldset / legend
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM, E.J. Zufelt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> This, however, is not a dsirable solution, as browsers have never styled these elements consistently or in any way that makes one not want to throw up. Using a CSS reset is an options, but from what I know there are no fieldset / legend resets that work well cross browser.
What's Drupal's browser support policy?
Is there an example of a design that the Drupal guys think cannot be
styled using fieldset/legend?
IIRC I used to get pretty good results by just throwing a span round
the inner content of the legend element, and styling that.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Sun, Dec 04 2011 8:21PM
Subject: Re: Looking for an alternative to fieldset / legend
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Well aria-describedby works alright as a replacement. Set an id for
the common label text that one would markup as a legend (if
fieldset/legend were used). Then use aria-describedby within every
related form control (which would have its own explicit label or title
attribute) that points to the id-value for legend-text.
But this will not create the border etc. that fieldset creates by
default which is an accessibility aid for some users to identify
related fields as a group.
Sailesh Panchang
www.deque.com
On 12/4/11, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM, E.J. Zufelt < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> This, however, is not a dsirable solution, as browsers have never styled
>> these elements consistently or in any way that makes one not want to throw
>> up. Using a CSS reset is an options, but from what I know there are no
>> fieldset / legend resets that work well cross browser.
>
> What's Drupal's browser support policy?
>
> Is there an example of a design that the Drupal guys think cannot be
> styled using fieldset/legend?
>
> IIRC I used to get pretty good results by just throwing a span round
> the inner content of the legend element, and styling that.
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>
From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Mon, Dec 05 2011 12:39AM
Subject: Re: Looking for an alternative to fieldset / legend
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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Sailesh Panchang
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Well aria-describedby works alright as a replacement. Set an id for
> the common label text that one would markup as a legend (if
> fieldset/legend were used). Then use aria-describedby within every
> related form control (which would have its own explicit label or title
> attribute) that points to the id-value for legend-text.
> But this will not create the border etc. that fieldset creates by
> default which is an accessibility aid for some users to identify
> related fields as a group.
Wouldn't this prevent user control over whether to repeat the legend
for every field?
Wouldn't it also conflict with providing per-field help?
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis